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The BEGG surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,056 22706 0 4
United States (1880 census) 172 21512 0 3
Change since 1880 +884 -1194 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 845 1937 0.005 52
United Kingdom 1,956 3021 0.004 43
Top States for BEGG by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 220 11949 0.001 6
Pennsylvania 98 15257 0.001 8
Ohio 68 18931 0.001 6
Michigan 66 19580 0.001 7
Florida 58 28095 0.000 4
Top States for BEGG by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 7 10735 0.001 11
Connecticut 38 12306 0.001 11
Pennsylvania 98 15257 0.001 8
North Dakota 5 16391 0.001 8
Minnesota 34 23249 0.001 7

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

Classification and Origin of BEGG

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 952 90.15
Asian/Pacific 29 2.75
Mixed Race 26 2.46
White (Hispanic) 25 2.37
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of BEGG in historical publications

BEGG. A. personal name. An A-Sax. saint was so called.

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 BEGG

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BEGG.

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 BEGG

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