Higgs

At the 2020 census, 9,859 Americans bore the surname Higgs — 3,531st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 30,300.

By the numbers

People: 9,859
Rank: 3,531st
How common: 1 in 30,300
Per 100,000: 3.3

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

. From Hick + the patronymic suffix -s.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 67.0%
Black, not Hispanic 24.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Higgs

Peter Higgs (1929–2024)British physicist and Nobel Prize winner
Robert Higgs (born 1944)1944- American economist

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

Surnames like Higgs

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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.