Driggs Surname

141,462nd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 3,150 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Trinidad and Tobago

Driggs Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Driggs Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States2,8331:127,94213,536
Cuba2121:54,3522,151
Trinidad and Tobago451:30,3113,123
Brazil121:17,839,528311,080
Canada81:4,605,699220,704
Ecuador71:2,272,26423,377
Israel71:1,222,51968,299
Spain71:6,678,86292,666
Costa Rica41:1,195,0176,919
Philippines21:50,619,112341,003
Chile21:8,808,23765,417
Germany21:40,252,730481,636
Nigeria11:177,142,758748,972
Netherlands11:16,887,176156,465
Slovenia11:2,487,67531,128
Mexico11:124,126,205103,776
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915
Japan11:127,844,29373,547
Venezuela11:30,204,07785,459
France11:66,422,722504,397
Afghanistan11:32,153,18360,828
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England21:12,187,685173,419
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States6601:76,0898,089

Driggs (10) may also be a first name.

Driggs Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Driggs Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Driggs is more commonly found in The United States than any other country/territory. It can also occur as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Driggs? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 141,462nd most prevalent surname world-wide It is held by around 1 in 2,313,507 people. The last name occurs mostly in The Americas, where 99 percent of Driggs live; 90 percent live in North America and 90 percent live in Anglo-North America. It is also the 3,684,242nd most prevalent given name throughout the world, borne by 10 people.

The last name Driggs is most commonly occurring in The United States, where it is borne by 2,833 people, or 1 in 127,942. In The United States Driggs is mostly concentrated in: California, where 12 percent are found, Utah, where 12 percent are found and Ohio, where 7 percent are found. Excluding The United States this surname occurs in 20 countries. It is also common in Cuba, where 7 percent are found and Trinidad and Tobago, where 1 percent are found.

Driggs Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Driggs has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Driggs last name expanded 429 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Driggs Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those holding the Driggs surname are 13.9% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 60.67% registered with the political party.

Driggs earn around the same as the average income. In United States they earn 2.81% more than the national average, earning $44,362 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Driggss922/
Driggsj921/
Drigg9145/
Drigs912/
Dreggs8323/
Druggs836/
Drigss831/
Drig80213/
Drigh73220/
Drugs73183/
Drics7341/
Driks7338/
Dørig7316/
Draig739/
Dregg734/
Drygg731/
Drixs731/
Dregs731/
Dreig731/
Drygs730/
Drieg730/
Droigk67113/
Dricks6715/
Draigh6714/
Drigue678/
Drieks673/
Driscp671/
Drikse671/

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Driggs
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