Wilcox

Wilcox is the 613th most common surname in the United States, shared by 53,767 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 5,559.

By the numbers

People: 53,767
Rank: 613th
How common: 1 in 5,559
Per 100,000: 18.0

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Wilcox described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 81.1%
Black, not Hispanic 10.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919)American author and poet
Lisa Wilcox (born 1964)American actress
Chris Wilcox (born 1982)American basketball player
Jason Wilcox (born 1971)English association football player
Larry Wilcox (born 1947)American actor and producer
Frank Wilcox (1907–1974)American actor
Robert William Wilcox (1855–1903)Hawaiian soldier, revolutionary and politician
Fred M. Wilcox (1907–1964)American film director

People named Wilcox with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Wilcox

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.