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The PUGH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 38,691 817 0.014 143
United States (1880 census) 9,074 660 0.018 181
Change since 1880 +29617 -157 -0.004 -38
Other Countries
Australia 1,272 1304 0.008 78
United Kingdom 15,566 369 0.034 339
Top States for PUGH by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 3,187 198 0.072 717
Texas 2,498 1064 0.012 120
Florida 2,443 835 0.015 153
Ohio 2,276 561 0.020 200
Virginia 2,274 362 0.032 321
Top States for PUGH by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 3,187 198 0.072 717
Mississippi 980 452 0.034 345
Virginia 2,274 362 0.032 321
Tennessee 1,762 496 0.031 310
West Virginia 541 518 0.030 299

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

Classification and Origin of PUGH

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Wales

Language of origin: Welsh

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 511 1.32
White (Hispanic) 464 1.2
Native American/Alaskan 155 0.4
Asian/Pacific 139 0.36
White (Caucasian) 26,999 69.78
Black/African American 10,423 26.94

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

Meaning of PUGH in historical publications

PUGH. Welsh, Ap-Hugh, the son of Hugh. See AP.

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 PUGH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PUGH.

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 PUGH

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