Find out how popular the last name Hagie is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Hagie.

Hagie, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Hagie surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Hagie in America

Hagie is the 77522nd most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Hagie surname appeared 247 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Hagie.

We can also compare 2010 data for Hagie to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Hagie

The surname Hagie is believed to have originated in Scotland, with its earliest recorded bearers traced back to the late 16th century. The name is thought to have derived from the Scottish Gaelic word "achadh," meaning "field" or "meadow," suggesting that the original bearers may have lived in or near a field or meadow.

One of the earliest known references to the surname Hagie can be found in the records of the Scottish Privy Council from the late 1500s, where a person named John Hagie is mentioned in connection with a legal dispute over land ownership. This suggests that the name may have been associated with landowning families in Scotland at that time.

In the 17th century, the Hagie surname appears in various Scottish parish records, indicating its presence in different regions of the country. For example, there are records of Hagies in the parishes of Stirling and Ayr, among others.

One notable bearer of the Hagie surname was John Hagie, a Scottish merchant and landowner born in 1642. He was a prominent figure in the city of Glasgow, where he served as a magistrate and was involved in the city's trade and commerce.

Another early bearer of the surname was Robert Hagie, born in 1678 in Ayrshire, Scotland. He was a farmer and landowner, and his descendants continued to live in the Ayrshire region for several generations.

In the 18th century, the Hagie surname began to spread beyond Scotland, with some bearers migrating to other parts of the British Isles and eventually to North America. One such individual was William Hagie, born in 1734 in Lanarkshire, Scotland, who later settled in Virginia, United States, in the late 1700s.

As the Hagie surname spread, it also underwent various spelling variations, including Haggie, Hague, and Haig. These variations likely arose due to regional dialects, phonetic spelling, and the preferences of individual families or scribes.

Throughout history, there have been several notable individuals with the surname Hagie, such as Alexander Hagie, a Scottish writer and poet born in 1782, and James Hagie, a Scottish civil engineer born in 1824, who was involved in the construction of several notable bridges and railway lines in Scotland.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Hagie

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Hagie.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Hagie was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Hagie has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Hagie was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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