Higgs
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a voiced form of Hick; first attested Hegge Hog 1286 AssCh
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/hɪɡz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Higgs is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 14K
- USUnited States1 in 2.1Kas Hicks
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Higgs itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 367 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
158,320 named Hicks, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a voiced form of Hick; first attested Hegge Hog 1286 AssCh
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Higgs 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 | 158,320as Hicks | 1 in 2.1K | 158K | Higgs | 367 |
| CN China | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Higgs | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Higgs | 202 |
| PL Poland | 3,004as Huk | 1 in 13K | 1.6K | Higgs | 5 |
| AU Australia | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 1 | Higgs | 148 |
| GY Guyana | 172as Hicks | 1 in 4.4K | 172 | — | 2 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 34as Hicks | 1 in 1.6K | 34 | — | — |
158,320 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling hicks. 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; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)
Higgs is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A surname originating as a patronymic.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, ‘son of Hick’
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In English, patronymic from Hick.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Michael Higgsb. 1912GBBritish politician (1912-1995)
- Peter Higgsb. 1929GBBritish physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1929–2024)
- Ken Higgsb. 1937GBEnglish Test and County cricketer, footballer (1937-2016)
- Joe Higgsb. 1940JMJamaican musician (1940–1999)
- Robert Higgsb. 1944US1944- American economist
- Blaine Higgsb. 1954CACanadian politician
- Michael Higgsb. 1962GBBritish actor
- Dustin Higgsb. 1972USAmerican criminal
- Shane Higgsb. 1977GBEnglish footballer
- Nick Higgsb. 2000GBBritish football executive
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 21 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 10K | #3,458 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 10K | #3,275 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 9.9K | #3,531 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 10 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 10 | #133,548 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #224,622 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #624 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Higgs mean, and where does it come from?
- a voiced form of Hick; first attested Hegge Hog 1286 AssCh Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Higgs?
- A machine transcription gives /hɪɡz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Higgs have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 158 thousand people named Hicks, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Higgs?
- In the United States, the national register counted 158,320 people named Hicks in 2010, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/higgsThe 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, “Higgs”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.