Nixon is an English surname that means "son of Nick", and through Nicholas it goes back to the Greek for "victory of the people". In the United States it inevitably calls up President Richard Nixon, yet parents in the 2010s adopted it as a crisp surname name in the style of Knox and Lennox. Nixon entered the top 1000 in 2011, peaked at number 482 in 2017 and has slid to number 1061 in 2025.