Plugg Surname

7,117,718th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 7 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
England

Plugg Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Plugg Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States41:90,614,7331,198,479
England21:27,859,030389,889
India11:767,065,3821,851,717
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States71:7,174,098302,835

Plugg Last Name Facts

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

The surname Plugg occurs most in The United States. It may be found as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Plugg? popularity and diffusion

The last name Plugg is the 7,117,718th most common last name internationally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 1,041,077,988 people. The surname occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 57 percent of Plugg are found; 57 percent are found in North America and 57 percent are found in Anglo-North America.

The surname is most widely held in The United States, where it is borne by 4 people, or 1 in 90,614,733. In The United States Plugg is most frequent in: California, where 50 percent are found, Illinois, where 25 percent are found and Pennsylvania, where 25 percent are found. Without taking into account The United States this surname exists in 2 countries. It is also found in England, where 29 percent are found and India, where 14 percent are found.

Plugg Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Plugg has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Plugg last name contracted 43 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Pflugg911/
Plug891,277/
Pflug807,210/
Ploug801,346/
Plaug8029/
Plugh8017/
Pluig801/
Plugs801/
Phlug801/
Pluug801/
Plogg801/
Plu'g801/
Plueg800/
Plough73943/
Pflugh73419/
Pflyug7346/
Pflugk7329/
Pflueg7327/
Plaugh7322/
Pleugh7310/
Pfluhg732/
Phlugh730/
Plog671,349/
Pluk67401/
Plugova67111/
Plüg6711/
Pluc677/
Plig675/
Plugová671/

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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 Plugg
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