The surname Orgill
An English nickname surname, carried by 807 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex O624
Origin
English origin
From Middle English orgel (“pride”), probably a nickname for an arrogant person.
Orgill 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 807 people named Orgill in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 382,584 Americans. That is up 18% since 2000, when the Census counted 683.
Who is named Orgill
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
88% of people named Orgill identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 88%
- Black (not Hispanic) 7.8%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
- Two or more races 0.7%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Orgill
Orgill has the Soundex code O624, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code O624.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Orgill come from?
- From Middle English orgel (“pride”), probably a nickname for an arrogant person.
- How common is the surname Orgill?
- 807 people in the United States had the surname Orgill in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 382,584 Americans. It ranked 29,309th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Orgill?
- In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Orgill identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Orgill?
- Orgill is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
- Is the surname Orgill getting more or less common?
- More common. 683 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 807 in 2010, up 18%.