Dixon

At the 2020 census, 154,538 Americans bore the surname Dixon — 170th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 1,934.

By the numbers

People: 154,538
Rank: 170th
How common: 1 in 1,934
Per 100,000: 51.7

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Dixon described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 51.9%
Black, not Hispanic 38.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Dixon

Alesha Dixon (born 1978)British singer, rapper and dancer
Scott Dixon (born 1980)New Zealand race car driver
Willie Dixon (1915–1992)American blues musician
Lee Dixon (born 1964)English footballer
Kerry Dixon (born 1961)English footballer
Donna Dixon (born 1957)American former actress
Diane Dixon (born 1964)Athletics competitor, 400 metres
Jeane Dixon (1904–1997)American astrologer and psychic

People named Dixon with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Dixon

Dix
Dixson

Also a first name

Dixon has been given to 3,084 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 2014. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.