How common is the surname Lipke?

1,291 people in the United States had the surname Lipke in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 239,152 Americans. It ranked 20,541st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Lipke?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Lipke identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Lipke getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,300 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,291 in 2010, down 0.7%.

The surname Lipke

A surname, carried by 1,291 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex L120

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lipke is more common than 87.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,291 people named Lipke in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 239,152 Americans. That is down 0.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,300.

#20,541

rank among US surnames

1,291

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

-0.7%

change since 2000 (was #19,285)

Who is named Lipke

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

95% of people named Lipke identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
Two or more races 1.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%

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 Lipke

Lipke has the Soundex code L120, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L120.

Questions

How common is the surname Lipke?: 1,291 people in the United States had the surname Lipke in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 239,152 Americans. It ranked 20,541st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lipke?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Lipke identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Lipke getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,300 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,291 in 2010, down 0.7%.