Last Name SLAGG

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Meaning Local: At the Slack of Slagg, from residence thereby, a place where the road becomes less steep, a gap in the hills (slacken, to ease off). Probably both 'slack' and 'slag' refer to that point of the hiltop where the stones and earth began to dribble down the slope.
Origin English, Irish

Rank 122,534 (2000 US census)
Count 130 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 96.15%, or 125 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • undisclosed % as black,
  • 0%, or 0 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0%, or 0 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • undisclosed % as two or more races, and
  • 0%, or 0 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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