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    The surname Pugsley

    A surname, carried by 1,483 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex P240

    Pugsley: #18,584 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Pugsley #18,584, 1,483 people Pugsley: #18,584 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Pugsley #18,584, 1,483 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pugsley is more common than 88.5% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,483 people named Pugsley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 208,190 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,485.

    #18,584
    rank among US surnames
    1,483
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.1%
    change since 2000 (was #17,494)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #18,579Shimabukuro1,484208,050
    #18,584Bollin1,483208,190

    Who is named Pugsley

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

    95% of people named Pugsley identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • Two or more races 0.7%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Pugsley

    Pugsley has the Soundex code P240, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P240.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Pugsley?
    1,483 people in the United States had the surname Pugsley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 208,190 Americans. It ranked 18,584th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Pugsley?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Pugsley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Pugsley getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,485 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,483 in 2010, down 0.1%.