The Slagle surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 8,573 people carried this name — #4,135 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 34,400 people counted. That is down 1% from 8,632 in 2000.

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Where the name comes from

The origin of the Slagle surname

Americanized spelling of German Schlegel.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Slagle» (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

20 families named Slagle, or a close spelling, were counted in 1790.

Each family is counted by its head. About 123 people lived in those households, 6 to a family on average. The table counts it together with 2 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

Pennsylvania 11
Virginia 3
North Carolina 3
Maryland 2
South Carolina 1

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. 262 — public domain · names carried by at least 100 white persons in 1790.

In print

Slagle in American newspapers,
1921–1922.

Newspaper page from The Patriot carrying the name Slagle
The Patriot 1922-09-08
Newspaper page from The Patriot carrying the name Slagle
The Patriot 1922-08-25
Newspaper page from The Patriot carrying the name Slagle
The Patriot 1921-07-08

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain.

In print

Slagle in Australian newspapers,
1930s–1960s.

958 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Slagle. The most, 802, date from the 1940s. 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 3.3 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

New South Wales 529
Tasmania 177
Western Australia 85
Queensland 82
Victoria 55
South Australia 24
ACT (Canberra) 2
Northern Territory 1

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Slagle.

Who carried it

People named Slagle,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Oscar Slagle
    Oscar Slagle 1844–1913
  • Jimmy Slagle
    Jimmy Slagle 1873–1956 · baseball player
  • Harriet Ann Catherine Slagle 1846–1937

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 Slagle,
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 States529 records

529 records of the Slagle name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 335
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 90
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 57
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 19
  • Riverside Cemetery, Asheville (North Carolina) 9
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 9
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 5
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 3
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 2
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Lloyd G. Slagle

    Born 1925 in Wyoming. Enlisted 1943 at Fort Francis E Warren Cheyenne; filling station attendant. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 2000, buried at Lakeview Cemetery, Cheyenne, Wyoming.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record David Roddy Slagle

    Born 1945; from Rogersville, Missouri. U.S. Air Force; killed in action 1972 in Binh Long, 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)
  3. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Chinton Slagle

    Arrived at New York in 1903 aboard the Hohenzollern from Gibraltar and Naples, aged 31; merchant. Bound for New York.

    U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)

Showing 3 of 529 records for Slagle 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 · City of Asheville (public domain, PDDL) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).

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