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    The surname Greggs

    A surname, carried by 1,573 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex G620

    Greggs: #17,798 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Greggs #17,798, 1,573 people Greggs: #17,798 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Greggs #17,798, 1,573 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Greggs is more common than 89% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,573 people named Greggs in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 196,278 Americans. That is up 10% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,426.

    #17,798
    rank among US surnames
    1,573
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +10.3%
    change since 2000 (was #18,034)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,789Lafortune1,574196,153
    #17,798Baas1,573196,278

    Who is named Greggs

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

    47% of people named Greggs identified as Black (not Hispanic), 46% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 47%
    • White (not Hispanic) 46%
    • Two or more races 2.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Greggs

    Greggs has the Soundex code G620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G620.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Greggs?
    1,573 people in the United States had the surname Greggs in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 196,278 Americans. It ranked 17,798th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Greggs?
    In the 2010 Census, 47% of people named Greggs identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 46% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Greggs getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,426 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,573 in 2010, up 10%.