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    The surname Lips

    A Dutch surname, carried by 603 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex L120

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lips is more common than 77.2% of them.

    Origin

    Dutch origin

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

    One of 167 Dutch surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 603 people named Lips in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 512,016 Americans. That is up 0.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 599.

    #37,029
    rank among US surnames
    603
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.7%
    change since 2000 (was #35,522)

    Who is named Lips

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

    93% of people named Lips identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.8%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; 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 Lips

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

    Other Dutch surnames

    All 167 Dutch surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Lips come from?
    Borrowed from Dutch and North German Lips, from a reduced form of the personal name Philips.
    How common is the surname Lips?
    603 people in the United States had the surname Lips in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 512,016 Americans. It ranked 37,029th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Lips?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Lips identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Lips getting more or less common?
    More common. 599 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 603 in 2010, up 0.7%.