# Lips (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/lips/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Dutch |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 603 |
| US rank (2010) | 37,029 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 512,016 people |
| Change since 2000 | +0.7% (599 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch and North German Lips, from a reduced form of the personal name Philips.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Lips in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 93% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 1.8% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.5% |
| Two or more races | 1.3% |

## Similar surnames

Lipsey, Lipps, Lipka, Lipsky, Lipke, Lipski, Livas, López, Lopes, Levesque, Lovejoy, Livesay.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.