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The NIX surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 22,814 1437 0.008 85
United States (1880 census) 3,746 1637 0.007 75
Change since 1880 +19068 +200 +0.001 +10
Other Countries
Australia 342 4614 0.002 21
United Kingdom 898 5736 0.002 20
Top States for NIX by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 2,868 312 0.035 350
Texas 2,685 915 0.013 129
Alabama 2,599 238 0.058 584
South Carolina 1,408 420 0.035 351
Florida 1,350 1448 0.008 84
Top States for NIX by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 2,599 238 0.058 584
South Carolina 1,408 420 0.035 351
Georgia 2,868 312 0.035 350
Mississippi 815 508 0.029 287
Oklahoma 876 477 0.025 254

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called NIX live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called NIX represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called NIX in Georgia than any other state, but you are more likely to find a NIX by picking someone at random in Alabama than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of NIX

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the NIX surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the NIX surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of NIX in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 310 1.36
Mixed Race 308 1.35
Native American/Alaskan 194 0.85
Asian/Pacific 112 0.49
White (Caucasian) 19,079 83.63
Black/African American 2,813 12.33

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the NIX surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of NIX in historical publications

NIX. See Nicholas.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to NIX

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NIX.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for NIX

The following words are slight variants of NIX that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.