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The surname Daggs

A surname, carried by 1,060 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). Daggs is more common than 85.3% of them.

Origin

Plural form of Dagg.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,060 people named Daggs in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 291,269 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,055.

#23,837
rank among US surnames
1,060
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+0.5%
change since 2000 (was #22,723)

Who is named Daggs

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

46% of people named Daggs identified as white (not Hispanic), 44% as Black (not Hispanic) and 5.4% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 46%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 44%
  • Two or more races 5.4%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Daggs

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

Questions

Where does the surname Daggs come from?
Plural form of Dagg.
How common is the surname Daggs?
1,060 people in the United States had the surname Daggs in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 291,269 Americans. It ranked 23,837th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Daggs?
In the 2010 Census, 46% of people named Daggs identified as white (not Hispanic), and 44% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Daggs getting more or less common?
More common. 1,055 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,060 in 2010, up 0.5%.