Higgins

At the 2020 census, 75,781 Americans bore the surname Higgins — 422nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 3,944.

By the numbers

People: 75,781
Rank: 422nd
How common: 1 in 3,944
Per 100,000: 25.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

An anglicised version of Irish Ó hUiginn (“descendant of a Viking”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 81.3%
Black, not Hispanic 10.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Higgins

Michael D. Higgins (born 1941)President of Ireland (2011–2018; 2018–2025)
Mary Higgins Clark (1927–2020)American author of suspense novels
John Higgins (born 1975)Scottish snooker player
Alex Higgins (1949–2010)Northern Irish snooker player
Jack Higgins (1929–2022)British novelist
John Michael Higgins (born 1963)American actor and comedian
Missy Higgins (born 1983)Australian singer and songwriter
Kate Higgins (born 1969)American voice actress

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

Surnames like Higgins

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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.