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    The surname Meggs

    A surname, carried by 1,061 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex M200

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Meggs is more common than 85.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,061 people named Meggs in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 290,995 Americans. That is up 4.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,020.

    #23,817
    rank among US surnames
    1,061
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4%
    change since 2000 (was #23,300)

    Who is named Meggs

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

    74% of people named Meggs identified as white (not Hispanic), 22% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 74%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 22%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Meggs

    Meggs has the Soundex code M200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M200.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Meggs?
    1,061 people in the United States had the surname Meggs in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 290,995 Americans. It ranked 23,817th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Meggs?
    In the 2010 Census, 74% of people named Meggs identified as white (not Hispanic), and 22% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Meggs getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,020 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,061 in 2010, up 4.0%.