How common is the surname Rugg?

2,986 people in the United States had the surname Rugg in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 103,398 Americans. It ranked 10,704th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Rugg?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Rugg identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Rugg getting more or less common?

Less common. 3,042 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,986 in 2010, down 1.8%.

The surname Rugg

An English place surname, carried by 2,986 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex R200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Rugg is more common than 93.4% of them.

Origin

English origin

Topographic surname, from Middle English rygge (“ridge”), from Old English hrycg.

Rugg is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

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 2,986 people named Rugg in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 103,398 Americans. That is down 1.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,042.

#10,704

rank among US surnames

2,986

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

-1.8%

change since 2000 (was #9,814)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,697	Zellers	2,988	103,328
#10,701	Lamkin	2,987	103,363
#10,704	Rugg	2,986	103,398
#10,706	Wardlow	2,985	103,432
#10,708	Ricard	2,984	103,467
#10,711	Shute	2,983	103,502

Who is named Rugg

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

95% of people named Rugg identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Two or more races 1.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
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 Rugg

Rugg has the Soundex code R200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R200.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Rugg come from?: Topographic surname, from Middle English rygge (“ridge”), from Old English hrycg.
How common is the surname Rugg?: 2,986 people in the United States had the surname Rugg in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 103,398 Americans. It ranked 10,704th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Rugg?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Rugg identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Rugg?: Rugg is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Rugg getting more or less common?: Less common. 3,042 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,986 in 2010, down 1.8%.