Suggs

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Suggs is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Liberia it is the 33rd most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): S England: esp. Somerset. nickname from Middle English sugge ‘(small) bird, sparrow’ (Old English sucga), perhaps for a small person.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 24K◐
  • CACanada1 in 60K
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 63K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈14K ●

across 2 countries

Sources
347 ●

126K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 24K ◐

United States

Meaning & origin●

Main GB Location (1881): S England: esp. Somerset. nickname from Middle English sugge ‘(small) bird, sparrow’ (Old English sucga), perhaps for a small person.

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Suggs is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—13,585113K rec.1 in 24K14KSuggs347
GB United Kingdom—3,6773.8K rec.——Suggs31
CA Canada—1,2481.3K rec.——Suggs21
AU Australia—1,1171.1K rec.——Suggs9
IT Italy—676685 rec.——Suggs9
SG Singapore—395399 rec.——Suggs1
LR Liberia#33289946 rec.——Suggs2
RU Russia—278286 rec.——Suggs5
PH Philippines—267283 rec.——Suggs7
DE Germany—237238 rec.——Suggs20
GH Ghana—220226 rec.——Suggs8
PL Poland—9394 rec.——Suggs2

Roughly 14K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 24K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English129K86%
  • 5.6K4%
  • Spanish4.4K3%
  • Arabic1.1K1%
  • German8031%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English129,24686%
5,6394%
Spanish4,3713%
Arabic1,0531%
German8031%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Notable people with this name●

192019401960198020002020Virginia Suggs, b. 1923Themetta Suggs, b. 1926Brad Suggs, b. 1933Walter Suggs, b. 1939Shafer Suggs, b. 1953Lee Suggs, b. 1980Terrell Suggs, b. 1982Scott Suggs, b. 1989Josh Suggs, b. 1989Jalen Suggs, b. 2001

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 7 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Suggs
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201014K#2,652
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200013K#2,553
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202013K#2,743
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—1#22,676
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement)———

Reference works 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 5 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Suggs?
We estimate roughly 14 thousand people bear Suggs (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
In which country does Suggs have the most bearers?
We estimate about 14 thousand people bear Suggs in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled suggs.
How common is Suggs compared with other names?
In Liberia, Suggs is the 33rd most common surname of 6,092 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Suggs mean?
Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): S England: esp. Somerset. nickname from Middle English sugge ‘(small) bird, sparrow’ (Old English sucga), perhaps for a small person.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Suggs” — the 33rd most common surname in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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