How common is the surname Bragg?

21,934 people in the United States had the surname Bragg in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 14,076 Americans. It ranked 1,643rd of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Bragg?

William Lawrence Bragg, Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer, followed by Don Bragg.

Where is the surname Bragg most common?

Wikidata records people named Bragg in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom.

How do you pronounce Bragg?

Bragg is /bɹæɡ/, one syllable.

Is the surname Bragg getting more or less common?

More common. 21,540 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 21,934 in 2010, up 1.8%.

The surname Bragg

A surname, carried by 21,934 people in the United States.

Pronounced /bɹæɡ/ 1 syllable Soundex B620

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bragg is more common than 99% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 21,934 people named Bragg in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 14,076 Americans. That is up 1.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 21,540.

#1,643

rank among US surnames

21,934

people in 2010

7.4

per 100,000 Americans

+1.8%

change since 2000 (was #1,536)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,634	Geiger	22,039	14,009
#1,635	Dodge	22,035	14,012
#1,637	Lujan	22,021	14,021
#1,638	Babcock	22,016	14,024
#1,639	Hand	22,006	14,030
#1,640	Winkler	21,993	14,038
#1,641	Painter	21,969	14,054

Who is named Bragg

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

81% of people named Bragg identified as white (not Hispanic), 14% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 81%
Black (not Hispanic) 14%
Two or more races 2.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Braggs

9 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

William Lawrence Bragg
Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer, 1890–1971
Don Bragg
American athletics competitor (1935–2019)
Joey Bragg
American actor and comedian, born 1996
Alvin Bragg
American lawyer and District Attorney of New York County (born 1973)
Thomas Bragg
American governor and senator (1810–1872)
Melvyn Bragg
British broadcaster and author (born 1939)
Elizabeth Bragg
American engineer, 1858–1929
Bernard Bragg
American actor, writer and director (1928-2018)
Marques Bragg
American basketball player (born 1970)

Notable Braggs come mostly from the United States (7), Australia (1) and the United Kingdom (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Bragg

Bragg has the Soundex code B620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B620.

Questions

How common is the surname Bragg?: 21,934 people in the United States had the surname Bragg in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 14,076 Americans. It ranked 1,643rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Bragg?: In the 2010 Census, 81% of people named Bragg identified as white (not Hispanic), and 14% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Bragg?: William Lawrence Bragg, Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer, followed by Don Bragg.
Where is the surname Bragg most common?: Wikidata records people named Bragg in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom.
How do you pronounce Bragg?: Bragg is /bɹæɡ/, one syllable.
Is the surname Bragg getting more or less common?: More common. 21,540 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 21,934 in 2010, up 1.8%.