Nixon

Nixon is the 958th most common surname in the United States, shared by 35,853 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 8,337.

By the numbers

People: 35,853
Rank: 958th
How common: 1 in 8,337
Per 100,000: 12.0

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

From an alteration of Nickson, originally a patronymic meaning "son of Nicholas".

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 60.0%
Black, not Hispanic 30.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Nixon

Richard Nixon (1913–1994)president of the United States from 1969 to 1974
Pat Nixon (1912–1993)First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974
Cynthia Nixon (born 1966)American actress and politician
Jay Nixon (born 1956)55th Governor of Missouri
Marni Nixon (1930–2016)American singer and actress
Kimberley Nixon (born 1985)British actress
Marian Nixon (1904–1983)actress
Julie Nixon Eisenhower (born 1948)American author

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

Surnames like Nixon

Also a first name

Nixon has been given to 7,728 American babies as a first name since 1917, peaking in 2017. 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.