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The surname Frogge

An English nickname surname, carried by 561 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex F620

Frogge: #39,212 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Frogge #39,212, 561 people Frogge: #39,212 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Frogge #39,212, 561 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Frogge is more common than 75.8% of them.

Origin

English origin

From Middle English frogge (“frog”), a derogatory nickname for someone who looked like a frog in some way.

Frogge is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 561 people named Frogge in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 550,349 Americans. That is up 4.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 539.

#39,212
rank among US surnames
561
people in 2010
0.2
per 100,000 Americans
+4.1%
change since 2000 (was #38,587)

Who is named Frogge

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

95% of people named Frogge identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as two or more races and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 95%
  • Two or more races 2.1%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Frogge

Frogge has the Soundex code F620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F620.

Other English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Frogge come from?
From Middle English frogge (“frog”), a derogatory nickname for someone who looked like a frog in some way.
How common is the surname Frogge?
561 people in the United States had the surname Frogge in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 550,349 Americans. It ranked 39,212th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Frogge?
In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Frogge identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as two or more races.
What type of surname is Frogge?
Frogge is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
Is the surname Frogge getting more or less common?
More common. 539 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 561 in 2010, up 4.1%.