Last Name FERGUSON

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	The son of Fergus. The name crept over the border into Cumberland nad Northumberland. Nickname Fergie or Fargie. The son of Fergus, which signifies a brave chieftain � John Fergusson, "Dominus de Craigdarroch" early in the fourteenth century, is the first on record. The son of Fergus.

Origin	English, Scottish, Jewish, Spanish, French, Irish, Falkland, Belgian, South african

Rank	173 (2000 US census)	156 (1990 US census)

Count	142,256 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

77.54%, or 110305 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
18.05%, or 25677 total occurrences, as black,
0.44%, or 626 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.6%, or 854 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.66%, or 2361 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.71%, or 2433 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Belarus middle names form the same way as Russian ones, in part due to general common history of the Russian and Belarus nationalities, and in part due to very close integration of all nationalities during the Soviet Union times. Follow the

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

Shortest baby names

We analyzed the first names reported in the United States starting from the year 1880. There were no one character names. We did find 10 two character names.

Please, send us any information you may have about addition two character first names and especially ...