The Scruggs surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 15,808 people carried this name — #2,310 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 18,700 people counted. That is up 2% from 15,562 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Scruggs surname
A surname, variant of Scroggs.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Scruggs» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In the first U.S. census, 1790
25 families named Scruggs, or a close spelling, were counted in 1790.
Each family is counted by its head. About 129 people lived in those households, 5.2 to a family on average. The table counts it together with 3 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. 260 — public domain · names carried by at least 100 white persons in 1790.
In print
Scruggs in American newspapers,
1897–1922.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 42,425 pages in all carry the name.
In print
Scruggs in Australian newspapers,
1850s–1950s.
155 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Scruggs. The most, 46, date from the 1900s. 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 Queensland, at 1.6 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 Scruggs.
Who carried it
People named Scruggs,
with a public archive behind them.
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Lawson A. Scruggs 1857–1914 · physician -
Burgess E. Scruggs 1860–1934 · physician -
Mary Lou Williams 1910–1981 · composer -
Joseph Scruggs 1888–1964 · politician
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Anderson Scruggs 1897–1955
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Irene Scruggs 1901–1981 · singer
Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
In the public record
People named Scruggs,
in the records of the United States.
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 States981 records
- U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 636
- U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 299
- New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 23
- New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 11
- U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 5
- U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 4
- Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 1
- U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 1
- Sacramento County historic burials 1
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Example: U.S. war memorial War record James Arthur ScruggsBorn 1951; from Austin, Texas. U.S. Army, aircraft armament repairman; died in an accident 1970 in Thua Thien, South Vietnam. Buried at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, Texas.
U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) -
Example: U.S. registration card, 1942 Military record Jack ScruggsBorn 1919 in Tennessee. Enlisted 1942 at Camp Forrest; waiter from Williamson County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1998, buried at Pinecrest Memorial Gardens, Columbia, Tennessee.
U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) -
Example: U.S. war memorial War record Stuart Jackson ScruggsBorn 1941; from Atlanta, Georgia. U.S. Navy, aviation machinist's mate; died in an accident 1970 in Quang Nam, South Vietnam. Buried at Marietta National Cemetery, Georgia.
U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
Showing 3 of 981 records for Scruggs in the United States.
Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · Sacramento County, Historic Burials (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Scruggs.
- Scotti 2,252 · U.S. census
- Scotto 2,019 · U.S. census
- Scotton 736 · U.S. census
- Scozzaro 187 · U.S. census
- Scribner 6,558 · U.S. census
- Scroggins 9,495 · U.S. census
- Scuderi 1,383 · U.S. census
- Scully 8,747 · U.S. census
- Seach 160 · U.S. census
- Seal 9,316 · U.S. census
- Seale 5,846 · U.S. census
- Seals 15,858 · U.S. census
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