The surname Napper
An occupational surname, carried by 2,819 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex N160
Origin
A surname originating as an occupation.
Napper is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,819 people named Napper in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 109,523 Americans. That is up 3.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,723.
Who is named Napper
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
58% of people named Napper identified as white (not Hispanic), 38% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 58%
- Black (not Hispanic) 38%
- Two or more races 2.0%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Napper has the Soundex code N160, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code N160.
Questions
- How common is the surname Napper?
- 2,819 people in the United States had the surname Napper in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 109,523 Americans. It ranked 11,216th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Napper?
- In the 2010 Census, 58% of people named Napper identified as white (not Hispanic), and 38% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Napper?
- Napper is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
- Is the surname Napper getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,723 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,819 in 2010, up 3.5%.