Huggins

At the 2020 census, 21,328 Americans bore the surname Huggins — 1,637th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 14,000.

By the numbers

People: 21,328
Rank: 1,637th
How common: 1 in 14,000
Per 100,000: 7.1

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

From a medieval diminutive of the given name Hugh + patronymic suffix -s.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Huggins described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 63.2%
Black, not Hispanic 26.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Huggins

Charles Brenton Huggins (1901–1997)American physiologist
William Huggins (1824–1910)British astronomer
Margaret Lindsay Huggins (1848–1915)Irish astronomer

People named Huggins with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Huggins

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.