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The HOGG surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,299 4471 0.003 27
United States (1880 census) 2,728 2225 0.005 55
Change since 1880 +4571 -2246 -0.002 -28
Other Countries
Australia 1,778 913 0.011 109
United Kingdom 13,334 441 0.029 290
Top States for HOGG by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 845 2848 0.004 41
California 530 5582 0.002 16
Florida 467 4553 0.003 29
Pennsylvania 383 4146 0.003 31
Georgia 371 2695 0.005 45
Top States for HOGG by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 252 2277 0.006 62
Wyoming 27 2558 0.005 55
South Carolina 215 2806 0.005 54
Idaho 68 2841 0.005 53
Arkansas 131 2755 0.005 49

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

Classification and Origin of HOGG

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 962 13.18
Mixed Race 94 1.29
White (Hispanic) 70 0.96
Asian/Pacific 46 0.63
Native American/Alaskan 29 0.4
White (Caucasian) 6,098 83.55

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

Meaning of HOGG in historical publications

HOGG. HOGGE. The animal— analogous to Wildbore, Purcell, &c. Those who object to be classed with the swinish multitude may prefer a derivation from the ASax. hog, whicli means prudent, careful, thoughtful. The northern Hoggs, however, claim descent from Hougo, a Noi-vs'egian baron, who is said to have settled in Ettrick Forest. Folks of Shields, p. 43. Who ■would have guessed at the baronial descent of ovn- great Shepherd !

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 HOGG

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HOGG.

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 HOGG

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