Nix

At the 2020 census, 24,093 Americans bore the surname Nix — 1,439th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 12,400.

By the numbers

People: 24,093
Rank: 1,439th
How common: 1 in 12,400
Per 100,000: 8.1

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

From Nick, diminutive of the given name Nicholas + patronymic suffix -s.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 77.5%
Black, not Hispanic 13.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Nix

Garth Nix (born 1963)Australian fantasy writer
Alexander Nix (born 1975)British businessman

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

Surnames like Nix

Nixon

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.