The Gragg surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 5,675 people carried this name — #6,047 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 52,100 people counted. That is up 4% from 5,436 in 2000.
In the Nordic population registers
43 people named Gragg is counted in Finland.
Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In the first U.S. census, 1790
47 families named Gragg, or a close spelling, were counted in 1790.
Each family is counted by its head. About 291 people lived in those households, 6.2 to a family on average. The table counts it together with 4 other spellings. The table lists white heads of families only, in the twelve states whose 1790 records survive; Virginia’s figures come from state lists of 1782–1785.
Families, by state
U.S. Census Bureau, «A Century of Population Growth from the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth, 1790–1900» (Washington, 1909), table 111, p. 242 — public domain · names carried by at least 100 white persons in 1790.
In print
Gragg in American newspapers,
1877–1921.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 9,891 pages in all carry the name.
In print
Gragg in Australian newspapers,
1850s–1950s.
226 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Gragg. The most, 47, date from the 1920s. New South Wales has the most articles, but weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, the name stands out most in Tasmania, at 4.5 times its expected share.
Articles, by state
Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Gragg.
Who carried it
People named Gragg,
with a public archive behind them.
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Florence Alden Gragg 1877–1965 · university teacher -
Bessie Fleischman Murphy 1894–1991 · botanical collector
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Rosa Slade Gragg 1904–1989
Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 6 lives in all are documented under this name.
In the public record
People named Gragg,
in the records of 4 countries.
Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.
United States291 records
- U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 184
- U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 74
- Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 9
- New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 7
- Irish Famine arrivals at New York, 1846–1851 5
- New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 4
- U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 3
- U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 3
- Sacramento County historic burials 2
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Example: U.S. registration card, 1942 Military record Glenn W. GraggBorn 1908 in Nebraska. Enlisted 1942 at Peoria, Illinois; inspector. U.S. Army Air Forces veteran of World War II; died 1988, buried at Camp Butler National Cemetery, Illinois.
U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) -
Example: passenger manifest, 1903 Passenger record Joak GraggArrived at New York in 1892 aboard the Munchen from Bremen, aged 19; farmer. From Finland, Russia; bound for New York.
U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) -
Example: U.S. burial record, 1864 Burial record Maurice Denton GraggU.S. Coast Guard veteran of the Vietnam War. Born 1945, died 1995; buried at Houston National Cemetery, Texas.
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
Showing 3 of 291 records for Gragg in the United States.
Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, Famine Irish Passenger Records (public domain) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · Sacramento County, Historic Burials (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain).
Canada3 records
- City of Calgary cemetery records 2
- Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver 1
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Example: Canadian cemetery Burial record Eileen Mina GraggBuried in 1998 at Union Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta, aged 87.
City of Calgary. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Calgary. -
Example: Canadian cemetery Burial record Emil GraggDied 1969; buried at Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver, British Columbia.
City of Vancouver. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Vancouver. -
Example: Canadian cemetery Burial record Harry Edward GraggBuried in 1982 at Union Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta, aged 76.
City of Calgary. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Calgary.
Counts: City of Calgary. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Calgary. · City of Vancouver. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Vancouver. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax, photo by Edgar El (CC BY 3.0).
Australia3 records
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Example: passenger manifest, 1903 Passenger record William GraggSailed from Victoria in 1866 aboard the Alhambra I, bound for Bluff Harbor Otago, aged 29.
Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0) -
Example: passenger manifest, 1903 Passenger record Geo GraggSailed from Victoria in 1900 aboard the Pateena III, bound for Launceston, aged 41.
Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0)
Showing 2 of 3 records for Gragg in Australia.
Counts: Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).
Finland1 record
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Example: roll of the war dead War record Karl Runar GräggBorn 1920 in Pietarsaaren mlk; farmer. Died in 1942 during Finland's wars of 1939–1945; buried in Pietarsaaren mlk.
Kansallisarkisto, via WarSampo (CC BY 4.0)
Counts: Kansallisarkisto, via WarSampo (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Livre d’or of the war dead, Paris, Ministère des pensions, Archives nationales (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Gragg.
- Grady 26,103 · U.S. census
- Graef 1,293 · U.S. census
- Graeff 1,056 · U.S. census
- Graf 13,301 · U.S. census
- Graff 13,058 · U.S. census
- Graffin 182 · U.S. census
- Gragnani 152 · U.S. census
- Graham 201,159 · U.S. census
- Grail 108 · U.S. census
- Grain 167 · U.S. census
- Grall 578 · U.S. census
- Gramaglia 182 · U.S. census
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