Fix
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fɪks/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fix is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 28K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 63K
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 23K
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
- 332 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
5,282 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
quick, fixed
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Fix is read(measured from records)
Fix is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English72%
To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Greek beer
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- German8.2%
quick, fixed
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
fixed (costs, salary)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French6.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Fix in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fix 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 | 5,282 | 1 in 63K | 5.3K | Fix | 332 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Fix | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Fix | 114 |
| EG Egypt | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | Fix | 14 |
| FR France | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 71K | 116 | — | 4 |
| CA Canada | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Fix | 64 |
5,282 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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Fix is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ang, alternative form of fisċ
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fro, fixed (not able to move)
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)
- Pierre-Félix Fix-Masseaub. 1869FRFrench sculptor (1869-1937)
- Paul Fixb. 1901USAmerican film and television character actor, best known for his work in Westerns (1901-1983)
- Evelyn Fixb. 1904USAmerican statistician
- Michael Fixb. 1950USAmerican economist
- Bernd Fixb. 1962DEGerman computer scientist
- Oliver Fixb. 1973DEGerman slalom canoeist
- Daton Fixb. 1998USAmerican wrestler
- Amanda Fixb. 2001CACanadian actress
- Molly Fixactress
- Zane Fixactor
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.3K | #5,996 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.3K | #6,431 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.1K | #6,417 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 195 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 182 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 167 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 158 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 151 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 145 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 135 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 120 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 116 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Fix come from?
- quick, fixed Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German.
- How do you pronounce Fix?
- A machine transcription gives /fɪks/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Fix mean?
- In English, To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
- In which country does Fix have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.3 thousand people named Fix, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fix.
- How common is the name Fix?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,282 people named Fix in 2010, about 1 in 63 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Fix?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fixThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Fix”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.