The SCRUGGS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	15,562	2141	0.006	58
United States (1880 census)	3,269	1878	0.007	65
Change since 1880	+12293	-263	-0.001	-7
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for SCRUGGS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Tennessee	1,810	501	0.032	318
Texas	1,352	1922	0.006	65
South Carolina	1,275	534	0.032	318
Virginia	1,082	881	0.015	153
Georgia	979	1171	0.012	120
Top States for SCRUGGS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Tennessee	1,810	501	0.032	318
South Carolina	1,275	534	0.032	318
Mississippi	767	618	0.027	270
Alabama	910	896	0.020	205
Virginia	1,082	881	0.015	153

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

Classification and Origin of SCRUGGS

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the SCRUGGS 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.

Ethnic distribution of SCRUGGS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	243	1.56
White (Hispanic)	213	1.37
Native American/Alaskan	54	0.35
Asian/Pacific	51	0.33
White (Caucasian)	9,922	63.76
Black/African American	5,076	32.62

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

Similar names to SCRUGGS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SCRUGGS.

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.