Pigman Surname

299,542nd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,270 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
United States

Pigman Surname Definition:

PIGMAN: 1. A dealer in pigs. See anecdote in English Surn. i., 39. 2. A seller of crockery. Jamieson. Quasi piggin-man; a piggin being a small veasel of wood or earth. 3. A corruption of pike-man.

Pigman Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1,2431:291,60027,038
Israel141:611,26042,949
Russia71:20,589,008462,339
Argentina41:10,685,854219,200
England11:55,718,059489,080
Finland11:5,496,70284,025
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States2811:178,71415,946

Pigman Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

PIGMAN: 1. A dealer in pigs. See anecdote in English Surn. i., 39. 2. A seller of crockery. Jamieson. Quasi piggin-man; a piggin being a small veasel of wood or earth. 3. A corruption of pike-man.

Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower

PIGMAN: A dealer in pigs. A man by the name of Johnson, in Staffordshire, England, who followed this occupation, was generally called Pigman, and he willingly recognized this cognomen.

Ludus Patronymicus (1868) by Richard Stephen Charnock

Pigman: the village pig-driver.

Family Names And Their Story (1913) by Sabine Baring-Gould

Pigman Last Name Facts

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

The surname Pigman (Russian: Пигман) occurs more in The United States more than any other country or territory. It may be found as:. Click here for other potential spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Pigman? popularity and diffusion

The surname Pigman is the 299,542nd most widely held last name worldwide It is held by around 1 in 5,738,225 people. The last name Pigman is predominantly found in The Americas, where 98 percent of Pigman live; 97 percent live in North America and 97 percent live in Anglo-North America.

This last name is most frequent in The United States, where it is borne by 1,243 people, or 1 in 291,600. In The United States it is primarily concentrated in: Kentucky, where 16 percent live, Ohio, where 14 percent live and California, where 5 percent live. Barring The United States this last name is found in 5 countries. It is also found in Israel, where 1 percent live and Russia, where 1 percent live.

Pigman Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Pigman has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Pigman surname increased 442 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Pigman Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Pigman surname are 24.6% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 71.37% registered to vote for the political party.

Pigman earn somewhat less than the average income. In United States they earn 9.46% less than the national average, earning $39,068 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Puigman923/
Phigman922/
Piggman922/
Paigmane868/
Poigmand861/
Peighman860/
Pegman83195/
Pigmon83131/
Pygman8378/
Pugman831/
Peygman771/
Pigmone771/
Peggman771/
Pigmont770/
Phengman7114/
Pegmam671/
Paigemone671/
Pugmon671/
Pegmont620/
Peangmon573/

Pigman Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Pigman in the Russian language
Пигманpigman-

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