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    The surname Paugh

    A surname, carried by 3,626 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex P200

    Paugh: #9,017 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Paugh #9,017, 3,626 people Paugh: #9,017 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Paugh #9,017, 3,626 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Paugh is more common than 94.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,626 people named Paugh in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 85,148 Americans. That is up 1.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,574.

    #9,017
    rank among US surnames
    3,626
    people in 2010
    1.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.5%
    change since 2000 (was #8,490)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #9,011Hirst3,63085,054
    #9,013Traynor3,62885,101
    #9,017Garwood3,62685,148
    #9,020Stonge3,62585,171
    #9,023Lua3,62485,195
    #9,025Partlow3,62385,218
    #9,026Batt3,62285,242

    Who is named Paugh

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

    95% of people named Paugh identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as two or more races and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Paugh

    Paugh has the Soundex code P200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P200.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Paugh?
    3,626 people in the United States had the surname Paugh in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 85,148 Americans. It ranked 9,017th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Paugh?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Paugh identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Paugh getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,574 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,626 in 2010, up 1.5%.