How common is the surname Staggers?

1,700 people in the United States had the surname Staggers in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 181,615 Americans. It ranked 16,798th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Staggers getting more or less common?

More common. 1,467 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,700 in 2010, up 16%.

The surname Staggers

A surname, carried by 1,700 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S326

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Staggers is more common than 89.6% of them.

Origin

Jocular modification of Stephen + -ers. See Oxford "-er".

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,700 people named Staggers in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 181,615 Americans. That is up 16% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,467.

#16,798

rank among US surnames

1,700

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+15.9%

change since 2000 (was #17,639)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#16,789	Piggott	1,701	181,508
#16,798	Kuss	1,700	181,615
#16,802	Legler	1,699	181,722

Who is named Staggers

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

63% of people named Staggers identified as Black (not Hispanic), 32% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as two or more races.

Black (not Hispanic) 63%
White (not Hispanic) 32%
Two or more races 2.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Staggers

Staggers has the Soundex code S326, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S326.

Questions

Where does the surname Staggers come from?: Jocular modification of Stephen + -ers. See Oxford "-er".
How common is the surname Staggers?: 1,700 people in the United States had the surname Staggers in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 181,615 Americans. It ranked 16,798th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Staggers?: In the 2010 Census, 63% of people named Staggers identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 32% as white (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Staggers getting more or less common?: More common. 1,467 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,700 in 2010, up 16%.