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The OGG surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,713 10794 0.001 10
United States (1880 census) 755 6905 0.002 15
Change since 1880 +1958 -3889 -0.001 -5
Other Countries
Australia 243 6330 0.001 15
United Kingdom 989 5312 0.002 22
Top States for OGG by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 424 3399 0.004 37
Michigan 238 5242 0.002 24
California 237 11143 0.001 7
Texas 202 9125 0.001 10
Tennessee 124 5288 0.002 22
Top States for OGG by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wyoming 34 1887 0.007 69
Ohio 424 3399 0.004 37
Montana 30 4873 0.003 33
Nebraska 52 5165 0.003 30
Michigan 238 5242 0.002 24

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

Classification and Origin of OGG

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 OGG 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 OGG 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 OGG in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 36 1.33
Black/African American 30 1.11
Mixed Race 28 1.03
Asian/Pacific 23 0.85
Native American/Alaskan 12 0.44
White (Caucasian) 2,584 95.25

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

Meaning of OGG in historical publications

OGG. "I dare not say that Ogg — from the ancient root of 7ffli — has no connection with the King of Bashan ; but its immediate progenitor is an Old Norse Oegr, wlio might probably be as " ugly " a customer as the giant of the iron bed." Ferguson.

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 OGG

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OGG.

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 OGG

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