How common is the surname Beggs?

4,590 people in the United States had the surname Beggs in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 67,265 Americans. It ranked 7,261st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Beggs?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Beggs identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Beggs getting more or less common?

Less common. 4,611 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,590 in 2010, down 0.5%.

The surname Beggs

A surname, carried by 4,590 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex B200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Beggs is more common than 95.5% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,590 people named Beggs in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 67,265 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 4,611.

#7,261

rank among US surnames

4,590

people in 2010

1.6

per 100,000 Americans

-0.5%

change since 2000 (was #6,739)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,255	Nightingale	4,596	67,177
#7,257	Lohman	4,592	67,236
#7,258	Futch	4,591	67,250
#7,261	Beggs	4,590	67,265
#7,264	Humble	4,588	67,294

Who is named Beggs

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

93% of people named Beggs identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.2% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.2%
Two or more races 1.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Beggs

Beggs has the Soundex code B200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B200.

Questions

How common is the surname Beggs?: 4,590 people in the United States had the surname Beggs in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 67,265 Americans. It ranked 7,261st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Beggs?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Beggs identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Beggs getting more or less common?: Less common. 4,611 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,590 in 2010, down 0.5%.