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    The surname Driggers

    A surname, carried by 7,641 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex D626

    Driggers: #4,648 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Driggers #4,648, 7,641 people Driggers: #4,648 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Driggers #4,648, 7,641 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Driggers is more common than 97.1% of them.

    Origin

    Origin unidentified.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 7,641 people named Driggers in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 40,406 Americans. That is up 5.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 7,243.

    #4,648
    rank among US surnames
    7,641
    people in 2010
    2.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +5.5%
    change since 2000 (was #4,510)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #4,642McKeever7,64740,375
    #4,644Reuter7,64340,396
    #4,645Whiteman7,64240,401
    #4,648Driggers7,64140,406
    #4,649Fortier7,63440,443
    #4,650Stroup7,62740,481

    Who is named Driggers

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

    93% of people named Driggers identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Two or more races 1.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.6%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Driggers

    Driggers has the Soundex code D626, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D626.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Driggers come from?
    Origin unidentified.
    How common is the surname Driggers?
    7,641 people in the United States had the surname Driggers in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 40,406 Americans. It ranked 4,648th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Driggers?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Driggers identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Driggers getting more or less common?
    More common. 7,243 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,641 in 2010, up 5.5%.