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The PEGG surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,943 10097 0.001 11
United States (1880 census) 725 7171 0.001 14
Change since 1880 +2218 -2926 0 -3
Other Countries
Australia 532 3030 0.003 33
United Kingdom 3,659 1704 0.008 80
Top States for PEGG by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 291 5701 0.002 24
North Carolina 268 3888 0.003 33
Indiana 211 4006 0.003 35
California 210 12967 0.001 6
Ohio 203 7286 0.002 18
Top States for PEGG by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Indiana 211 4006 0.003 35
North Carolina 268 3888 0.003 33
West Virginia 45 4286 0.002 25
Pennsylvania 291 5701 0.002 24
North Dakota 14 8715 0.002 22

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called PEGG live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called PEGG represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called PEGG in Pennsylvania than any other state, but you are more likely to find a PEGG by picking someone at random in Indiana than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of PEGG

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PEGG surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the PEGG surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of PEGG in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 130 4.42
Black/African American 72 2.45
Mixed Race 39 1.33
Native American/Alaskan 23 0.78
Asian/Pacific 21 0.71
White (Caucasian) 2,658 90.32

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the PEGG surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of PEGG in historical publications

PEGG. PEGGS. See Pegge.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to PEGG

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PEGG.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for PEGG

The following words are slight variants of PEGG that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.