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    The surname Keiper

    A surname, carried by 2,070 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex K160

    Keiper: #14,434 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Keiper #14,434, 2,070 people Keiper: #14,434 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Keiper #14,434, 2,070 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Keiper is more common than 91.1% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,070 people named Keiper in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 149,152 Americans. That is up 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,820.

    #14,434
    rank among US surnames
    2,070
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +13.7%
    change since 2000 (was #14,920)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #14,427Castilla2,071149,080
    #14,434Sumlin2,070149,152
    #14,443Busick2,069149,225

    Who is named Keiper

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

    97% of people named Keiper identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.2% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 97%
    • Two or more races 1.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    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 Keiper

    Keiper has the Soundex code K160, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K160.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Keiper?
    2,070 people in the United States had the surname Keiper in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 149,152 Americans. It ranked 14,434th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Keiper?
    In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Keiper identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.2% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Keiper getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,820 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,070 in 2010, up 14%.