How common is the surname Eppley?

1,701 people in the United States had the surname Eppley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 181,508 Americans. It ranked 16,789th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Eppley?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Eppley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Eppley getting more or less common?

More common. 1,670 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,701 in 2010, up 1.9%.

The surname Eppley

A surname, carried by 1,701 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex E140

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Eppley is more common than 89.7% of them.

Origin

Variant of Appley.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,701 people named Eppley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 181,508 Americans. That is up 1.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,670.

#16,789

rank among US surnames

1,701

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+1.9%

change since 2000 (was #15,973)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#16,781	Dechant	1,702	181,402
#16,789	Piggott	1,701	181,508
#16,798	Kuss	1,700	181,615

Who is named Eppley

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

96% of people named Eppley identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Two or more races 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Eppley

Epley

Eppley has the Soundex code E140, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code E140.

Questions

Where does the surname Eppley come from?: Variant of Appley.
How common is the surname Eppley?: 1,701 people in the United States had the surname Eppley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 181,508 Americans. It ranked 16,789th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Eppley?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Eppley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Eppley getting more or less common?: More common. 1,670 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,701 in 2010, up 1.9%.