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    The surname Nipper

    A surname, carried by 4,157 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex N160

    Nipper: #7,958 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Nipper #7,958, 4,157 people Nipper: #7,958 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Nipper #7,958, 4,157 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Nipper is more common than 95.1% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,157 people named Nipper in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 74,271 Americans. That is up 4.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,982.

    #7,958
    rank among US surnames
    4,157
    people in 2010
    1.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.4%
    change since 2000 (was #7,706)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,954Gagliano4,16174,200
    #7,955Beech4,16074,218
    #7,956Tarantino4,15874,253
    #7,958Nipper4,15774,271
    #7,961Coss4,15674,289

    Who is named Nipper

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

    91% of people named Nipper identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 91%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 4.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Nipper

    Nipper 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 Nipper?
    4,157 people in the United States had the surname Nipper in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 74,271 Americans. It ranked 7,958th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Nipper?
    In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Nipper identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Nipper getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,982 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,157 in 2010, up 4.4%.