Noggin the Nog is a fictional character appearing in a TV series (of the same name, originally broadcast 1959–1965 and 1982) and a series of illustrated books (published 1965–1977), created by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin. The TV series is considered a cult classic from the golden age of British children's television. Noggin himself is the simple, kind and unassuming “King of the Northmen” in a roughly Viking-age setting, with various fantastic elements such as dragons, flying machines and talking birds.
Noggin is an actual family name and was found in both the USA, and the UK between 1880 and 1920. The most Noggin families were found in the USA in 1880 when there were 19 Noggin families living in Virginia as opposed to 8 Noggin families in the entire UK. So Virginia had the highest population of Noggins in the world!