Nugent

Nugent is the 2,257th most common surname in the United States, shared by 15,695 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 19,000.

By the numbers

People: 15,695
Rank: 2,257th
How common: 1 in 19,000
Per 100,000: 5.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Norman

From the Norman habitational surname from any of various places in France called Nogent.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 84.0%
Black, not Hispanic 7.1%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Nugent

Ted Nugent (born 1948)American rock musician
David Nugent (born 1985)English association football player
Eugene Nugent (born 1958)Irish Roman Catholic archbishop
Elliott Nugent (1896–1980)American actor, playwright, writer, and film director
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (born 1993)Canadian ice hockey player
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1823–1889)British soldier, politician, and administrator
Neil Nugent (1926–2018)field hockey player
Edward Nugent (1904–1995)actor, writer, director

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

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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.