Like Randall and Kathy, I also would like to know about the name Nix. I was told that my Nixes were Irish. So I was looking for it as an Irish surname at the Birmingham Public Library some years ago. What I found in one reference book was that it was derived from the Irish name MacNicholas (spelled in Gaelic). It said that it was a patronymic surname taken by the sons of Nicholas Wolfe. (I have no idea who he was...) I had occasion some years later to show the Gaelic spelling to an Irishman (from Dublin) whom I met at work. He told me how ro pronounce it and said that there were Nixes in Ireland today. He said that they were famous as hurlers (field hockey players). When I first got on the web, I looked up MacNicholas and found a website for the Scottish Clan MacNicol at: www.tartans.com/clans/MacNicol/macnicol.html It does list Nix as one of the drivations of MacNicol. By the way, there's a fellow at the golf club I belong to who has the last name Nix and is also from Alabama. However, his Nixes are German. Jim Nix