The BRIGGS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	57,297	522	0.021	212
United States (1880 census)	20,282	253	0.041	406
Change since 1880	+37015	-269	-0.02	-194
Other Countries
Australia	4,205	349	0.026	257
United Kingdom	17,532	319	0.038	382

Top States for BRIGGS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	4,364	743	0.013	129
New York	3,840	404	0.020	202
Texas	3,569	735	0.017	171
Michigan	3,141	288	0.032	316
Florida	2,958	688	0.019	185
Top States for BRIGGS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	842	263	0.066	660
Vermont	316	229	0.052	519
Idaho	634	211	0.049	490
Rhode Island	497	188	0.047	474
Utah	762	346	0.034	341

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of BRIGGS

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 BRIGGS 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 BRIGGS 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 BRIGGS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	940	1.64
White (Hispanic)	825	1.44
Native American/Alaskan	350	0.61
Asian/Pacific	246	0.43
White (Caucasian)	44,629	77.89
Black/African American	10,308	17.99

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

Similar names to BRIGGS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BRIGGS.

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.