How common is the last name Higgins?

75,781 people in the United States have the last name Higgins, about 1 in 3,944. It ranks #422 of 156,621 last names in the 2020 Census.

last name

HIGGINS

#422

of 156,621 last names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
75,781
About
1 in 3,944
This common or more
30.1%
Who bears it

Of the 75,781 people with the last name Higgins, 81.3% reported their origin as White, 10.4% as Black and 3.8% as two or more races. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Either side of Higgins

#420 Ball · 76,008#421 Cardenas · 75,996#423 Bowen · 75,672#424 Gill · 75,535

Spelled almost the same

3 last names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Higgins, most common first.

#15,438 Higginson · 1,829#58,437 Higgens · 375#152,339 Higens · 106

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