How common is the surname Fagg?

1,581 people in the United States had the surname Fagg in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 195,285 Americans. It ranked 17,726th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Fagg getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,900 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,581 in 2010, down 17%.

The surname Fagg

A surname, carried by 1,581 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex F200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Fagg is more common than 89.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,581 people named Fagg in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 195,285 Americans. That is down 17% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,900.

#17,726

rank among US surnames

1,581

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

-16.8%

change since 2000 (was #14,420)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#17,717	Brodersen	1,583	195,038
#17,720	Dopp	1,582	195,162
#17,726	Fader	1,581	195,285
#17,734	Dorsch	1,580	195,409

Who is named Fagg

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

90% of people named Fagg identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 90%
Black (not Hispanic) 6.8%
Two or more races 1.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
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 Fagg

Fagg has the Soundex code F200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F200.

Questions

How common is the surname Fagg?: 1,581 people in the United States had the surname Fagg in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 195,285 Americans. It ranked 17,726th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Fagg?: In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Fagg identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Fagg getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,900 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,581 in 2010, down 17%.