# Lipton (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/lipton/  
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 | not recorded |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 2,361 |
| US rank (2010) | 13,002 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 130,769 people |
| Change since 2000 | -4.8% (2,481 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

The surname is from the place name.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Lipton 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) | 2.0% |
| Two or more races | 2.1% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Lipton in the United States.

## People named Lipton

- Peggy Lipton, American actress and singer (1946-2019)
- Peter Lipton, American philosopher (1954–2007)
- Bruce Lipton, American developmental biologist

## Similar surnames

Lupton, Lofton, Loftin, Levitan.

## 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.