Sturgeon Surname

31,553rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 16,916 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Scotland

Sturgeon Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from a nickname. 'the sturgeon,' but perhaps a personal name; compare Dolphin and Herring, undoubted personal names.

Willelmus Sturgeon, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.

John Sturgeon, Close Rolls 22 Henry VI.

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Sturgeon Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States11,7461:30,8583,840
England1,8031:30,9034,135
Canada1,5631:23,5743,209
Australia5301:50,9356,328
Scotland4861:11,0161,505
New Zealand2361:19,1883,376
South Africa2111:256,76625,923
Northern Ireland1351:13,6671,932
Thailand431:1,642,752213,663
Argentina371:1,155,22769,250
Wales201:154,72710,755
Ireland161:294,30910,207
Trinidad and Tobago121:113,6657,200
France81:8,302,840321,660
Italy71:8,736,670118,213
Isle of Man61:14,3043,169
Panama61:652,04310,051
Brazil41:53,518,583632,670
Singapore41:1,376,92628,409
China31:455,773,85521,925
Afghanistan31:10,717,72835,605
Germany31:26,835,153452,368
Japan21:63,922,14662,827
Poland21:19,004,374199,659
Russia21:72,061,528727,117
Vietnam21:46,323,0275,235
Austria21:4,257,71899,224
Honduras21:4,408,2217,709
Switzerland21:4,106,458122,336
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Cayman Islands11:63,8932,384
Croatia11:4,228,60499,289
Czechia11:10,633,469206,023
Albania11:2,914,05529,474
Denmark11:5,644,71593,155
Ecuador11:15,905,84650,210
United States Virgin Islands11:110,3756,934
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448
Netherlands11:16,887,176156,465
South Korea11:51,240,2568,015
Hong Kong11:7,335,48316,643
India11:767,065,3821,851,717
Serbia11:7,144,94838,459
Bahrain11:1,348,60810,432
Portugal11:10,418,24125,048
Philippines11:101,238,223404,861
Norway11:5,142,286129,201
Nigeria11:177,142,758748,972
Kosovo11:1,861,86914,990
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PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ireland2521:17,5792,142
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England9811:24,8473,444
Scotland2401:15,5971,713
Wales91:174,2686,522
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1,7311:29,0113,535

Sturgeon (35) may also be a first name.

Sturgeon Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

This surname is derived from a nickname. 'the sturgeon,' but perhaps a personal name; compare Dolphin and Herring, undoubted personal names.

Willelmus Sturgeon, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.

John Sturgeon, Close Rolls 22 Henry VI.

John Sturgeon, Rot. Pat., 2 Ric.

1559. Buried — Margery Sturgion: St. Peter, Cornhill.

1647. Married — John Scudder and Elizabeth Sturgeon: St. Dionis Backchurch.

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

A surname confined mainly to the shires of Dumfries and Kirkcudbright. Andrew Sturgioun and John Sturgioun were witnesses in Dumfries in 1544 (Anderson). Charles Strugeoun (with metathesis of r), sheathmaker in Edinburgh in 1608 (Edinb. Marr.), appears again in 1610 as Strudgeon (Laing, 1584). William Strudgeoun was reidare at Borg (Borgue) in Galloway, 1574 (RMR..). James Sturgeon in Wraithis is recorded in 1611, and Adam Sturgeone was heir of Clement Sturgeoun of Wraithes in 1636 (Retours, Kirkcudbright, 102,213). Margaret Sturgeon appears in Over Carntorsk in 1677 (Kirkcudbright), and Agnes Sturgeon was examined for the Test in Tinwald in 1685 (RPC., 3. ser. XI, p. 434). The surname is also recorded in New Abbey parish in 1705 (MCM., III, p. 414,417). Samuel Sturgeon wrote the Calloway herds, a lampoon, published in 1909. Strugeone 1648, Sturgione 1689.

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

(Anglo-French-Teut.) a nickname from the fish so called [Old French esturgeon (French esturgeon), Low Latin sturjo, -onis; from O.H.Ger. stur(j)e, mod. stör (= Old English styria), a sturgeon] The surname is usually Sturgeon in our 24th-25th cent. records; Sturgion occurs in the 16th cent.

— Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

The fish.

— Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower

From an estate in Essex called Sturgeons, formerly Turges Cassus. Turges may be the same name as Turgesius, a celebrated Norwegian king, called by Irish writers Tuirghes, who established his power in Ireland for thirty years. Hence probably the names Sturch, Sturge, Sturges, Sturgess, Sturgis.

— Ludus Patronymicus (1868) by Richard Stephen Charnock

King John granted to N. Sturgon, of Normandy, Stoteville, the estate of Hugh de Gornai, 1203 (Mem. Soc. Ant. Norm. v. 122). He was Viscount of Fescamp (Ib.)

— The Norman People (1874)

From the French, Lestourgeon; a personal name.

— British Family Names: Their Origin and Meaning (1903) by Henry Barber

The old Suffolk family of Sturgeon held the manor of Manston, Whepstead, from the beginning of the 16th to the close of the last century (G.). "Maister John Sturgeon" was governor of the company of Merchant Adventurers, when they gave a princely reception to Philip of Spain on the occasion of his taking possession of the Low Countries in 1540 (Allen's "Lincolnshire"). At present the name is best represented in and around Bury St. Edmunds. An estate in Writtle parish, Essex, is called Sturgeons or Turges Cassus (Wright's "Essex"). John Sturgeon, or Strogeon, of Hitchin, Herts, was twice sheriff of Hertfordshire and Essex in the reign of Edward IV. (Salmon's "Hertfordshire").

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

Average Sturgeon Salary in
United States

$42,079 USD

Per year
Rank:
682,963 of 1,180,305
Percentage of all salaries earned by bearers:
0.00321295
Rank: 3,826 of 1,181,369
Percentage of national average salary:
97.52%
Sample size: 6,512 (2014)

Average Salary in
United States

$43,149 USD

Per year
Per month:
$3,596 USD
Per week:
$799 USD
Per day:
$118 USD

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Sturgeon Last Name Facts

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

The last name Sturgeon occurs in The United States more than any other country/territory. It can also occur as:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Sturgeon? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 31,553rd most numerous family name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 430,808 people. The last name occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 79 percent of Sturgeon reside; 79 percent reside in North America and 78 percent reside in Anglo-North America. Sturgeon is also the 1,744,716th most frequently used first name in the world It is held by 35 people.

This surname is most commonly occurring in The United States, where it is carried by 11,746 people, or 1 in 30,858. In The United States it is mostly found in: Indiana, where 10 percent live, California, where 9 percent live and Kentucky, where 8 percent live. Barring The United States it exists in 48 countries. It is also found in England, where 11 percent live and Canada, where 9 percent live.

Sturgeon Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Sturgeon has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people carrying the Sturgeon last name expanded 679 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it expanded 184 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Scotland it expanded 203 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it expanded 222 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it fell 94 percent between 1901 and 2014.

Sturgeon Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those bearing the last name is primarily Presbyterian (50%) in Ireland.

In The United States those bearing the Sturgeon surname are 23.4% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 70.17% being registered to vote for the political party.

The amount Sturgeon earn in different countries varies somewhat. In South Africa they earn 7.42% more than the national average, earning R 255,264 per year; in United States they earn 2.48% less than the national average, earning $42,079 USD per year and in Canada they earn 0.12% less than the national average, earning $49,624 CAD per year.

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