The surname Triggs
A patronymic surname, carried by 2,687 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex T620
Origin
Patronymic from Trigg.
Triggs is a patronymic surname: formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,687 people named Triggs in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 114,903 Americans. That is up 5.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,537.
Who is named Triggs
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
51% of people named Triggs identified as white (not Hispanic), 43% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 51%
- Black (not Hispanic) 43%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
- Two or more races 2.4%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Triggs has the Soundex code T620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T620.
Questions
- Where does the surname Triggs come from?
- Patronymic from Trigg.
- How common is the surname Triggs?
- 2,687 people in the United States had the surname Triggs in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 114,903 Americans. It ranked 11,669th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Triggs?
- In the 2010 Census, 51% of people named Triggs identified as white (not Hispanic), and 43% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Triggs?
- Triggs is a patronymic surname, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
- Is the surname Triggs getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,537 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,687 in 2010, up 5.9%.