The NIXON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	36,037	877	0.013	134
United States (1880 census)	8,570	700	0.017	171
Change since 1880	+27467	-177	-0.004	-37
Other Countries
Australia	2,748	572	0.017	168
United Kingdom	12,700	463	0.028	277

Top States for NIXON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	2,899	928	0.014	139
North Carolina	2,484	471	0.031	309
Florida	2,348	884	0.015	147
California	2,334	1459	0.007	69
Ohio	1,695	791	0.015	149
Top States for NIXON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	2,484	471	0.031	309
Alabama	1,337	580	0.030	301
Oklahoma	737	647	0.021	214
Georgia	1,654	667	0.020	202
Louisiana	885	762	0.020	198

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of NIXON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the NIXON 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 NIXON 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 NIXON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	681	1.89
Mixed Race	631	1.75
Native American/Alaskan	231	0.64
Asian/Pacific	151	0.42
White (Caucasian)	23,590	65.46
Black/African American	10,757	29.85

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

Similar names to NIXON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NIXON.

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.