How common is the surname Hopper?

27,353 people in the United States had the surname Hopper in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 11,287 Americans. It ranked 1,281st of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Hopper?

Grace Hopper, American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992), followed by Dennis Hopper.

Where is the surname Hopper most common?

Wikidata records people named Hopper in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia and 1 other country.

Is the surname Hopper getting more or less common?

More common. 26,956 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 27,353 in 2010, up 1.5%.

The surname Hopper

A surname, carried by 27,353 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex H160

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hopper is more common than 99.2% of them.

Origin

* As an English and Scottish surname, from the verb hop; identical to hopper. * As a German surname, from hoppen (“to stumble, limp”), related to above. * As a Dutch surname, from hop (“Humulus lupulus”).

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 27,353 people named Hopper in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 11,287 Americans. That is up 1.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 26,956.

#1,281

rank among US surnames

27,353

people in 2010

9.3

per 100,000 Americans

+1.5%

change since 2000 (was #1,192)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,272	Locke	27,643	11,169
#1,273	Puckett	27,627	11,175
#1,274	Coronado	27,626	11,176
#1,275	Olvera	27,551	11,206
#1,276	Sykes	27,546	11,208
#1,277	Manuel	27,529	11,215
#1,278	Burks	27,523	11,218

Who is named Hopper

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

87% of people named Hopper identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 87%
Black (not Hispanic) 6.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
Two or more races 2.0%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Hoppers

14 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
Dennis Hopper
American actor and film director (1936–2010)
Edward Hopper
American realist painter and printmaker (1882-1967)
Hedda Hopper
American gossip columnist and actress (1885–1966)
Tom Hopper
British actor (b. 1985)
William Hopper
American actor (1915–1970)
Stephen Hopper
Australian botanist (born 1951)
Josephine Hopper
American painter and model (1883-1967)
DeWolf Hopper
American actor (1858-1935)
Edna Wallace Hopper
American actress (1872–1959)
Jerry Hopper
American film director (1907–1988)
Henry Hopper
American actor, born 1990

Notable Hoppers come mostly from the United States (10), the United Kingdom (2) and Australia (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Hopper

Hopper has the Soundex code H160, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H160.

Questions

Where does the surname Hopper come from?: * As an English and Scottish surname, from the verb hop; identical to hopper. * As a German surname, from hoppen (“to stumble, limp”), related to above. * As a Dutch surname, from hop (“Humulus lupulus”).
How common is the surname Hopper?: 27,353 people in the United States had the surname Hopper in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 11,287 Americans. It ranked 1,281st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Hopper?: In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Hopper identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Hopper?: Grace Hopper, American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992), followed by Dennis Hopper.
Where is the surname Hopper most common?: Wikidata records people named Hopper in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia and 1 other country.
Is the surname Hopper getting more or less common?: More common. 26,956 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 27,353 in 2010, up 1.5%.