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The BRAGG surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 21,540 1536 0.008 80
United States (1880 census) 5,165 1177 0.01 103
Change since 1880 +16375 -359 -0.002 -23
Other Countries
Australia 668 2415 0.004 41
United Kingdom 2,622 2356 0.006 57
Top States for BRAGG by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 1,717 109 0.095 949
Georgia 1,461 759 0.018 178
Ohio 1,406 973 0.012 124
California 1,383 2393 0.004 41
Florida 1,305 1639 0.008 82
Top States for BRAGG by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 1,717 109 0.095 949
Maine 631 363 0.049 495
Georgia 1,461 759 0.018 178
South Carolina 620 1109 0.015 155
Alabama 666 1147 0.015 150

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

Classification and Origin of BRAGG

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 332 1.54
White (Hispanic) 299 1.39
Native American/Alaskan 84 0.39
Asian/Pacific 58 0.27
White (Caucasian) 17,721 82.27
Black/African American 3,046 14.14

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

Meaning of BRAGG in historical publications

Brag, among the Scandinavians, was the god of eloquence, and the word was anciently used in the sense of eloquent; also, accomplished, brave, daring.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


BRAGG. BRAGGER. Skelton uses irag in the sense of proud, insolent; it also signifies brisk, full of spirits. Halliw. Tlie Scandinavian Apollo 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 BRAGG

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BRAGG.

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 BRAGG

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