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    The surname Knipp

    A surname, carried by 2,709 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex K510

    Knipp: #11,592 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Knipp #11,592, 2,709 people Knipp: #11,592 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Knipp #11,592, 2,709 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Knipp is more common than 92.9% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,709 people named Knipp in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 113,970 Americans. That is up 2.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,655.

    #11,592
    rank among US surnames
    2,709
    people in 2010
    0.9
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2%
    change since 2000 (was #10,990)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #11,587Marconi2,712113,844
    #11,588Didomenico2,711113,886
    #11,589Tomko2,710113,928
    #11,592Knipp2,709113,970
    #11,595Bump2,708114,012

    Who is named Knipp

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

    96% of people named Knipp identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.4% as two or more races and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.2%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Knipp

    Knipp has the Soundex code K510, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K510.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Knipp?
    2,709 people in the United States had the surname Knipp in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 113,970 Americans. It ranked 11,592nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Knipp?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Knipp identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Knipp getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,655 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,709 in 2010, up 2.0%.