Pigg Surname

72,889th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 6,761 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Finland

Pigg Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from a nickname. 'the pig'; compare Hogg, Wildbore, Purcell. Probably the epithet would be less offensive then than now. Two gentlemen named Pigg were about 1882 among our best county cricketers.

Goceline Pig, Norfolk, 1273.

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Pigg Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States5,9161:61,2687,176
England5061:110,11511,388
Finland1511:36,4024,696
Canada421:877,27667,671
South Africa321:1,693,05382,821
Australia261:1,038,29659,744
New Zealand241:188,68019,801
Sweden151:656,45048,545
Singapore131:423,66918,211
Scotland101:535,38220,332
Nicaragua51:1,204,2185,298
Brazil31:71,358,111770,017
Philippines21:50,619,112341,003
United Arab Emirates21:4,581,13693,443
China21:683,660,78330,601
Russia11:144,123,056881,408
Norway11:5,142,286129,201
Seychelles11:92,3931,532
Mexico11:124,126,205103,776
Malaysia11:29,494,225409,885
South Korea11:51,240,2568,015
Georgia11:3,745,54547,852
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915
Gabon11:1,889,1946,814
France11:66,422,722504,397
Vanuatu11:263,2762,086
Barbados11:287,4482,772
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England8781:27,7623,764
Scotland11:3,743,21632,299
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1,3461:37,3104,413

Pigg (13) may also be a first name.

Pigg Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

This surname is derived from a nickname. 'the pig'; compare Hogg, Wildbore, Purcell. Probably the epithet would be less offensive then than now. Two gentlemen named Pigg were about 1882 among our best county cricketers.

Goceline Pig, Norfolk, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

Richard Pig, Berkshire, ibid.

Walter Pigge, Northamptonshire, ibid.

John Pyg. Rolls of Parliament.

1626. John Pittman and Alice Pigge, widow: Marriage Lic. (London).

1787. Married — Richard Waite and Mary Pigg: St. George, Hanover Square.

A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

This is probably a nickname, ME. pigge, a young swine, a word of doubtful origin. The name is also recorded in England as early as 1273 as Pig and Pigge. The second form is recorded in Aberdeen.

The Surnames of Scotland (1946) by George Fraser Black (1866-1948)

(Scandinavian) a nickname and sign-name from the Pig [Middle English pig(ge must represent Dano-Norwegian pige-svin, a young female swine (cp. Dano-Norwegian pigebarn, a female child)—pige=Swed. piga = Old Norse píka, a girl: note the corresp. Low Ger. bigge, a pig, a little child, and Dutch big, bigge (from), a young female pig (we find the form with p- voiced to b- in this country in the 17th cent.: "In English we call a young swine a bigg.”— R. Holme, ‘Armoury’; New English Dictionary) In common usage -svin (-swine) was dropped, as it was in the case of hog-: v. Hogg. The first three words of Dr. Johnson’s definition of a pig —‘a young sow or boar’—contain the original meaning of the word] This surname is found in the Hundred Rolls as Pig and Pigge.

Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

Richard Pigg was proprietor in Haydon Bridge in 1663 (H.), where the name still remains.

Homes of Family Names in Great Britain (1890) by Henry Brougham Guppy

User-submitted Reference

(English) The Pigg surname means 'one who had characteristics of a pig'. Or it could also be a variant of the surname Pegg, meaning 'son of Margaret'.

- dinn315

Pigg Last Name Facts

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

Pigg (Russian: Пигг) is most common in The United States. It can occur as:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Pigg? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 72,889th most frequently occurring surname worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 1,077,880 people. This surname occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 88 percent of Pigg live; 87 percent live in North America and 87 percent live in Anglo-North America. Pigg is also the 3,159,357th most commonly held first name at a global level. It is borne by 13 people.

The surname Pigg is most frequently occurring in The United States, where it is borne by 5,916 people, or 1 in 61,268. In The United States Pigg is primarily concentrated in: Tennessee, where 14 percent are found, Missouri, where 10 percent are found and Texas, where 10 percent are found. Barring The United States Pigg exists in 26 countries. It also occurs in England, where 7 percent are found and Finland, where 2 percent are found.

Pigg Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Pigg has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Pigg last name grew 440 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it decreased 42 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Scotland it grew 1,000 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Pigg Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Pigg surname are 18.05% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 64.82% being registered with the party.

The amount Pigg earn in different countries varies markedly. In South Africa they earn 38.42% more than the national average, earning R 328,944 per year; in United States they earn 11% less than the national average, earning $38,404 USD per year and in Canada they earn 1.46% more than the national average, earning $50,407 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Piggs8988/
Puigg892/
Paigg890/
Pig8674/
Piggue80113/
Puig7547,066/
Pegg7511,697/
Paig75463/
Peig75456/
Piog75170/
Pigs7570/
Pigh7517/
Poig759/
Phig755/
Pieg753/
Pigc751/
Ppig751/
Picg751/
Hpig751/
Bpig751/
Pigz750/
Peggs671,298/
Pigue67726/
Poigt6789/
Peigh6771/
Puigt6762/
Pishg6732/
Puigh6712/
Paigh671/
Phaig671/
Poihg671/
Piohg671/
Piegh671/
Pejgg671/
Pijjg671/
Pigtd671/
Piegq671/
Phigh671/
Pissg670/

Pigg Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Pigg in the Russian language
Пиггpigg-

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