Figg

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Figg is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Surrey, Middlesex, Sussex,. (i) variant of Fick with voicing of /k/ to /g/. (ii) variant of Fidge .

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 286K(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 7.1M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

1,165 people, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
4 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 286K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

FiggLatin(measured from records)
ФиггCyrillic(measured from records)

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Main GB Location (1881): Surrey, Middlesex, Sussex,. (i) variant of Fick with voicing of /k/ to /g/. (ii) variant of Fidge . In some of the following early forms -ge- and -gge- may alternatively be spellings for dg.

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Where in the world(measured from records)

Figg counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Figg is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,1651 in 286K1.2KFigg4
ES Spain71 in 7.1M7——
GB United Kingdom———Figg2

1,165 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1700180019002000James Figg, b. 1700William Figg, b. 1783Eugene Figg, b. 1936William Douglas Figg, Sr., b. 1963Jacquie Menville, b. 1973

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(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Figg
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.2K#22,173
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.1K#23,117
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.1K#21,510
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—7#143,513
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Figg mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): Surrey, Middlesex, Sussex,. (i) variant of Fick with voicing of /k/ to /g/. (ii) variant of Fidge . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
In which country does Figg have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Figg, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled figg.
Where is Figg most common?
Figg is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 286 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Figg?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,165 people named Figg in 2010, about 1 in 286 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Figg”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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