How common is the surname Halperin?

1,714 people in the United States had the surname Halperin in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 180,132 Americans. It ranked 16,704th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Halperin?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Halperin identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Halperin?

Bertrand Halperin, American mathematician and physicist, followed by Victor Hugo Halperin.

Where is the surname Halperin most common?

Wikidata records people named Halperin in the United States.

Is the surname Halperin getting more or less common?

More common. 1,618 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,714 in 2010, up 5.9%.

The surname Halperin

A surname, carried by 1,714 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex H416

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

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,714 people named Halperin in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 180,132 Americans. That is up 5.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,618.

#16,704

rank among US surnames

1,714

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+5.9%

change since 2000 (was #16,383)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#16,696	Lorence	1,715	180,027
#16,704	Guidroz	1,714	180,132
#16,707	Nyquist	1,713	180,237

Who is named Halperin

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

93% of people named Halperin identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.2%
Two or more races 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Halperins

4 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Bertrand Halperin
American mathematician and physicist, born 1941
Victor Hugo Halperin
American film director (1895–1983)
David M. Halperin
American academic, born 1952
Kari Lake
American journalist and politician, head of Voice of America (born 1969)

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Halperin

Halperin has the Soundex code H416, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H416.

Questions

How common is the surname Halperin?: 1,714 people in the United States had the surname Halperin in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 180,132 Americans. It ranked 16,704th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Halperin?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Halperin identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Halperin?: Bertrand Halperin, American mathematician and physicist, followed by Victor Hugo Halperin.
Where is the surname Halperin most common?: Wikidata records people named Halperin in the United States.
Is the surname Halperin getting more or less common?: More common. 1,618 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,714 in 2010, up 5.9%.