Pugh

At the 2020 census, 37,613 Americans bore the surname Pugh — 914th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 7,947.

By the numbers

People: 37,613
Rank: 914th
How common: 1 in 7,947
Per 100,000: 12.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Welsh

From + Huw (“Hugh”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 64.9%
Black, not Hispanic 27.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Pugh

Florence Pugh (born 1996)British actress
Marc Pugh (born 1987)English association football player
Jim Pugh (born 1964)American tennis player
Danny Pugh (born 1982)English footballer and manager
Robert Pugh (born 1950)British actor
Lewis Pugh (born 1969)British-South African environmental campaigner, maritime lawyer and endurance swimmer

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

Surnames like Pugh

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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.