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    The surname Klipp

    A German surname, carried by 545 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex K410

    Klipp: #40,204 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Klipp #40,204, 545 people Klipp: #40,204 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Klipp #40,204, 545 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Klipp is more common than 75.2% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Borrowed from German Klipp, variant of Klippe. Compare Cliff; both are ultimately from Proto-Germanic *klibą.

    One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 545 people named Klipp in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 566,506 Americans. That is up 4.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 524.

    #40,204
    rank among US surnames
    545
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4%
    change since 2000 (was #39,499)

    Who is named Klipp

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

    96% of people named Klipp identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.9%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Klipp

    Klipp has the Soundex code K410, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K410.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Klipp come from?
    Borrowed from German Klipp, variant of Klippe. Compare Cliff; both are ultimately from Proto-Germanic *klibą.
    How common is the surname Klipp?
    545 people in the United States had the surname Klipp in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 566,506 Americans. It ranked 40,204th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Klipp?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Klipp identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Klipp getting more or less common?
    More common. 524 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 545 in 2010, up 4.0%.