Hix
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hix is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from a pet form of a Germanic personal name formed with hild ‘strife’, ‘battle’ as the first element.
- USUnited States1 in 63K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 100K
- TNTunisia≈1 in 42K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 307 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)
5,244 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Tunisia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a pet form of a Germanic personal name formed with hild ‘strife’, ‘battle’ as the first element.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hix counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 5,244 | 1 in 63K | 5.8K | Hix | 307 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Hix | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Hix | 58 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 485K | — | Hix | 8 |
| DE Germany | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 165K | — | Hix | 52 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Hix | 5 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Hix | 11 |
5,244 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hix is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, variant of Hicks.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In emy, type of feline, possibly an ocelot or margay
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-3 language code for Hixkaryana.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In za, also; as well
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kek, jaguar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Billy Hixb. 1929USAmerican football player
- H. L. Hixb. 1960USAmerican poet, academic (born 1960)
- Simon Hixb. 1968GBBritish political scientist
- Kyle Hixb. 1988USfootball player (born 1988)
- Emma Hixb. 1997CACanadian pornographic actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 5 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hix mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of a Germanic personal name formed with hild ‘strife’, ‘battle’ as the first element. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Hix have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.2 thousand people named Hix, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hix.
- How common is the name Hix?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,244 people named Hix in 2010, about 1 in 63 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Hix?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hixThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hix”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.