Nixon surname meaning

Nixon is an English, Scottish, and northern Irish patronymic from the Middle English personal name Nik or Nikke, a short form of Nicholas, plus -son. It is especially associated with the Scottish Borders and was carried into Ulster during the seventeenth-century Plantation. The underlying given name Nicholas is Greek in origin (“victory of the people”), but the surname itself simply means “son of Nick.” DAFN also records an Americanized Finnish Nissinen as a parallel Nicholas-based stream. Parent’s name is high confidence for the Nik(ke) + -son formation that surname dictionaries treat as the core explanation.