The surname Twiggs
A surname, carried by 1,360 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex T200
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,360 people named Twiggs in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 227,019 Americans. That is up 4.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,306.
#19,782
rank among US surnames
1,360
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+4.1%
change since 2000 (was #19,222)
| Rank | Surname | People | 1 in |
|---|---|---|---|
| #19,774 | Niswonger | 1,361 | 226,852 |
| #19,782 | Casagrande | 1,360 | 227,019 |
Who is named Twiggs
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
53% of people named Twiggs identified as white (not Hispanic), 39% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 53%
- Black (not Hispanic) 39%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
- Two or more races 3.1%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Twiggs has the Soundex code T200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T200.
Questions
- How common is the surname Twiggs?
- 1,360 people in the United States had the surname Twiggs in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 227,019 Americans. It ranked 19,782nd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Twiggs?
- In the 2010 Census, 53% of people named Twiggs identified as white (not Hispanic), and 39% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Twiggs getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,306 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,360 in 2010, up 4.1%.