Last Name DIXON

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Meaning The son of Richard, from the nickname Dick, which ran a severe race for popularity with Hick, and finally monopolized the public favor.
The son of Richard, from nickname Dick, whence partonymic Dicks, spelt Dix.
Origin English, Scottish, Jewish, Irish, Falkland, Belgian, South african

Rank 156 (2000 US census) 139 (1990 US census)
Count 152,015 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 57.05%, or 86725 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 38.21%, or 58085 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.38%, or 578 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.89%, or 1353 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.84%, or 2797 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.62%, or 2463 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

Longest last names

The 2000 USA census contains more than 150,000 surnames. The longest surnames contain 15 characters each. There are 23 names like that. There could be more of those last names in reality. Firstly because it has been 10+ years since the survey and we could have gotten...

Longest baby names

The longest first name, consisting of 12 characters, from the baby names reported since the year 1880 in the United States is Francisquita.

There are three names consisting of 11 characters: Christopher, Margueritta, and Margueritte


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