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Pugh Pugh is a surname from Welsh.
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Popularity score No recent data Boys and girls Shared by boys and girls
57.1% boysBased on U.S. population records 42.9% girls
People named Pugh in the U.S. Very rare Fewer than about 30 people. Estimated from birth records for children and population records for adults.
Interest on PerfectNameFinder Not yet scored Not enough visits yet to score. Every read and save counts toward it. Pugh’s family of names In English usage, Pugh as a surname has a related form in BEW. In Welsh usage, Pugh as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the German form HAUGER. In English usage, Pugh as a surname has a related form in PEW.
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Pugh Pew Bew Pughe Hauger Peeougheen Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
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Nicknames & forms 3 Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2 Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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About this profile. Meanings and origins are drawn from historical dictionaries and reference works, including Wiktionary; where interpretations differ, we say so. Popularity comes from U.S. Social Security birth records, 1880–2025. Famous namesakes come from Wikidata. Related names are linked through documented relationships; likely links are labeled as such.