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    The surname Wragg

    A Norse surname, carried by 591 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex W620

    Wragg: #37,646 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Wragg #37,646, 591 people Wragg: #37,646 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Wragg #37,646, 591 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wragg is more common than 76.8% of them.

    Origin

    Norse origin

    From the Old Norse personal name Wraghi or Rag, a short form of any of the various names beginning with the Proto-Germanic element *raginą (“decision, advice”).

    One of 126 Norse surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 591 people named Wragg in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 522,412 Americans. That is down 4.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 616.

    #37,646
    rank among US surnames
    591
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -4.1%
    change since 2000 (was #34,711)

    Who is named Wragg

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

    62% of people named Wragg identified as white (not Hispanic), 33% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 62%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 33%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Wragge

    Wragg has the Soundex code W620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W620.

    Other Norse surnames

    All 126 Norse surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Wragg come from?
    From the Old Norse personal name Wraghi or Rag, a short form of any of the various names beginning with the Proto-Germanic element *raginą (“decision, advice”).
    How common is the surname Wragg?
    591 people in the United States had the surname Wragg in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 522,412 Americans. It ranked 37,646th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Wragg?
    In the 2010 Census, 62% of people named Wragg identified as white (not Hispanic), and 33% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Wragg getting more or less common?
    Less common. 616 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 591 in 2010, down 4.1%.
    What are other spellings of Wragg?
    Wragge.