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The surname Spragg

A surname, carried by 1,138 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex S162

Spragg: #22,573 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Spragg #22,573, 1,138 people Spragg: #22,573 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Spragg #22,573, 1,138 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Spragg is more common than 86.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,138 people named Spragg in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 271,305 Americans. That is up 3.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,100.

#22,573
rank among US surnames
1,138
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+3.5%
change since 2000 (was #21,981)

Who is named Spragg

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

92% of people named Spragg identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.1% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 92%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 3.1%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%
  • Two or more races 1.0%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Spragg

Spragg has the Soundex code S162, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S162.

Questions

How common is the surname Spragg?
1,138 people in the United States had the surname Spragg in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 271,305 Americans. It ranked 22,573rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Spragg?
In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Spragg identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Spragg getting more or less common?
More common. 1,100 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,138 in 2010, up 3.5%.