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    The surname Haug

    A Norse surname, carried by 4,989 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex H200

    Haug: #6,757 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Haug #6,757, 4,989 people Haug: #6,757 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Haug #6,757, 4,989 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Haug is more common than 95.8% of them.

    Origin

    Norse origin

    * As a German surname, variant of Hugo, which shares the same origin as Hugh. Compare Hauck. * As a Norwegian surname, from Old Norse haugr (“hill mound”).

    One of 126 Norse surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,989 people named Haug in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 61,885 Americans. That is up 3.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,844.

    #6,757
    rank among US surnames
    4,989
    people in 2010
    1.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3%
    change since 2000 (was #6,465)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #6,748Neves4,99761,786
    #6,749Batres4,99661,799
    #6,750Benge4,99561,811
    #6,751Tseng4,99461,823
    #6,752McMinn4,99361,836
    #6,753Kight4,99261,848
    #6,754Zhong4,99161,860

    Who is named Haug

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

    95% of people named Haug identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.1%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Haug

    Haug has the Soundex code H200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H200.

    Other Norse surnames

    All 126 Norse surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Haug come from?
    * As a German surname, variant of Hugo, which shares the same origin as Hugh. Compare Hauck. * As a Norwegian surname, from Old Norse haugr (“hill mound”).
    How common is the surname Haug?
    4,989 people in the United States had the surname Haug in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 61,885 Americans. It ranked 6,757th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Haug?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Haug identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Haug getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,844 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,989 in 2010, up 3.0%.