The NUGENT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	15,599	2132	0.006	58
United States (1880 census)	4,863	1278	0.01	97
Change since 1880	+10736	-854	-0.004	-39
Other Countries
Australia	1,820	892	0.011	111
United Kingdom	5,102	1233	0.011	111

Top States for NUGENT by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	1,484	1168	0.008	78
Louisiana	1,223	498	0.027	274
California	1,191	2565	0.004	35
Florida	1,059	1884	0.007	66
Texas	1,058	2192	0.005	51
Top States for NUGENT by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Louisiana	1,223	498	0.027	274
New Hampshire	161	1167	0.013	130
Massachusetts	820	1066	0.013	129
Maine	123	1817	0.010	96
New Jersey	731	1188	0.009	87

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

Classification and Origin of NUGENT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	842	5.4
White (Hispanic)	278	1.78
Mixed Race	201	1.29
Asian/Pacific	137	0.88
Native American/Alaskan	47	0.3
White (Caucasian)	14,094	90.35

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

Meaning of NUGENT in historical publications

NUGENT. Gerd, according to Salverte, is the ancient French \f ovd (jdi which, gentil is a diminutive form) signifyiug the pleasantness of a place or person ; and 7w, noe, non, or none, designates a low meadoAV which ig frequently inundated. No-gent or Nugent, he adds, is the name of many towns or villages built on the banks of a aiver in a pleasant position, such as Nogent-sur- Seine, Nogent-sur-Marne, &c. Essai. ii. 284. The family are a branch of the great house of Belesme, beiug descended from Fulke de Belesrae, Lord of Nogent le Rotrou, who accompanied William of Normandy and fought at the battle of Hastings. Some of his descendants assumed the surname of Nogent or Nugent, and two of them, Gilbert de Nugent and Hugh de Nugent, cousius, founded the uame in Ireland temp. Heury II., they having accompanied Henry de Lacj-'s expedition against that country. They settled in AVestmeath, on part of the

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 NUGENT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NUGENT.

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.