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    The surname Dagg

    A French occupational surname, carried by 547 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex D200

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Dagg is more common than 75.3% of them.

    Origin

    French origin

    From Old French dague (“dagger”), hence a metonymic occupational surname for a maker or seller of daggers.

    Dagg is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

    One of 791 French surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 547 people named Dagg in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 564,434 Americans. That is up 3.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 527.

    #40,082
    rank among US surnames
    547
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.8%
    change since 2000 (was #39,304)

    Who is named Dagg

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

    94% of people named Dagg identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as two or more races and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Two or more races 2.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Dagg

    Dagg has the Soundex code D200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D200.

    Other French surnames

    All 791 French surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Dagg come from?
    From Old French dague (“dagger”), hence a metonymic occupational surname for a maker or seller of daggers.
    How common is the surname Dagg?
    547 people in the United States had the surname Dagg in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 564,434 Americans. It ranked 40,082nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Dagg?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Dagg identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as two or more races.
    What type of surname is Dagg?
    Dagg is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Dagg getting more or less common?
    More common. 527 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 547 in 2010, up 3.8%.