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The PEGGS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 501 41060 0 2
United States (1880 census) 120 27914 0 2
Change since 1880 +381 -13146 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 24 45277 0 1
United Kingdom 294 12875 0.001 6
Top States for PEGGS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 49 33972 0.000 3
West Virginia 48 4150 0.003 27
Ohio 45 28624 0.000 4
Pennsylvania 31 46134 0.000 3
Indiana 30 21203 0.000 5
Top States for PEGGS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 48 4150 0.003 27
Kentucky 20 14482 0.000 5
Indiana 30 21203 0.000 5
Tennessee 28 14733 0.000 5
Ohio 45 28624 0.000 4

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

Classification and Origin of PEGGS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PEGGS 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 PEGGS 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 PEGGS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 428 85.43
Black/African American 62 12.38
Mixed Race 7 1.4
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of PEGGS 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 PEGGS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PEGGS.

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 PEGGS

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