How common is the surname Lepper?

1,447 people in the United States had the surname Lepper in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 213,369 Americans. It ranked 18,883rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Lepper?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Lepper identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Lepper getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,817 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,447 in 2010, down 20%.

The surname Lepper

A surname, carried by 1,447 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex L160

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lepper is more common than 88.4% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,447 people named Lepper in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 213,369 Americans. That is down 20% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,817.

#18,883

rank among US surnames

1,447

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

-20.4%

change since 2000 (was #14,935)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#18,877	Serino	1,448	213,222
#18,883	Getman	1,447	213,369
#18,888	Rezac	1,446	213,517

Who is named Lepper

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

95% of people named Lepper identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
Two or more races 1.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

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 Lepper

Lepper has the Soundex code L160, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L160.

Questions

How common is the surname Lepper?: 1,447 people in the United States had the surname Lepper in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 213,369 Americans. It ranked 18,883rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lepper?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Lepper identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Lepper getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,817 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,447 in 2010, down 20%.