Mix
org · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Perhaps an anglicization of German Micksch, from Mikusch, a pet form of Mikolaj, itself a Slavic form of Nicholas; possibly also from independent English origins
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mix is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 62K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 33K
- CLChile≈1 in 56K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 341 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
5,344 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Perhaps an anglicization of German Micksch, from Mikusch, a pet form of Mikolaj, itself a Slavic form of Nicholas; possibly also from independent English origins.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Mix is read(measured from records)
Mix 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.
- Portuguese61%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mix in Portuguese.
- English21%
Perhaps an anglicization of German Micksch, from Mikusch, a pet form of Mikolaj, itself a Slavic form of Nicholas; possibly also from independent English origins.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
To stir together.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
v., hupu, kpongo, makpo,magbongo, hukpo, njumbu = yumbu
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
- German6.6%
singular imperative of mixen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
Mix 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 | 5,344 | 1 in 62K | 5.8K | Mix | 341 |
| DE Germany | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Mix | 101 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Mix | 63 |
| CA Canada | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 68K | 1 | Mix | 62 |
| CL Chile | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 56K | 1 | — | — |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Mix | 2 |
5,344 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; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
Mix 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.
perhaps a respelling of Micksch, from Mikusch, a pet form of Mikolaj, a Slavic form of Nicholas.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
unexplained.
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)
- John Mix Stanleyb. 1814USAmerican artist (1814-1872)
- Tom Mixb. 1880USAmerican film actor (1880-1940)
- Ruth Mixb. 1912USAmerican actress (1912-1977)
- Mix Weissb. 1924CHSwiss journalist and author (1924-2014)
- Ron Mixb. 1938USAmerican football player
- Steve Mixb. 1947USAmerican basketball player and coach
- Claudia Mixb. 1969CLChilean politician
- Bryant Mixb. 1972USAmerican football player
- Anthony Mixb. 1983USAmerican football player (born 1983)
- Mix Diskerudb. 1990NOAmerican soccer player
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 29 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.8K | #5,472 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.3K | #6,370 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.1K | #6,369 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Mix mean, and where does it come from?
- Perhaps an anglicization of German Micksch, from Mikusch, a pet form of Mikolaj, itself a Slavic form of Nicholas; possibly also from independent English origins. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Mix have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.3 thousand people named Mix, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mix.
- How common is the name Mix?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,344 people named Mix in 2010, about 1 in 62 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mixThe 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, “Mix”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.