The surname Scroggs
An English place surname, carried by 1,791 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex S620
Origin
English origin
Topographic surname from Middle English scrogge (“brushwood”).
Scroggs 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 1,791 people named Scroggs in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 172,387 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,799.
Who is named Scroggs
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
96% of people named Scroggs identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 96%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
- Two or more races 1.1%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Scroggs
Scroggs has the Soundex code S620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S620.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Scroggs come from?
- Topographic surname from Middle English scrogge (“brushwood”).
- How common is the surname Scroggs?
- 1,791 people in the United States had the surname Scroggs in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 172,387 Americans. It ranked 16,150th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Scroggs?
- In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Scroggs identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- What type of surname is Scroggs?
- Scroggs is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Scroggs getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,799 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,791 in 2010, down 0.4%.