Ruggles

4,938 people in the United States were counted with the surname Ruggles in the 2020 census, making it the 6,586th most common in the country. That is about one person in 60,500.

By the numbers

People: 4,938
Rank: 6,586th
How common: 1 in 60,500
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

From Rudge as a diminutive of the given name Roger + patronymic suffix -s.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Ruggles

Charles Ruggles (1886–1970)American actor
Wesley Ruggles (1889–1972)American film director
Carl Ruggles (1876–1971)American composer
John Ruggles (1789–1874)American politician

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

Surnames like Ruggles

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.