How common is the surname Pieper?

6,860 people in the United States had the surname Pieper in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 45,007 Americans. It ranked 5,103rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Pieper?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Pieper identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Pieper getting more or less common?

More common. 6,734 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,860 in 2010, up 1.9%.

The surname Pieper

A surname, carried by 6,860 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex P160

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Pieper is more common than 96.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 6,860 people named Pieper in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 45,007 Americans. That is up 1.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,734.

#5,103

rank among US surnames

6,860

people in 2010

2.3

per 100,000 Americans

+1.9%

change since 2000 (was #4,791)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#5,097	Krauss	6,865	44,974
#5,100	Desantiago	6,864	44,980
#5,101	Hang	6,863	44,987
#5,103	Tsang	6,860	45,007

Who is named Pieper

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

95% of people named Pieper identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Two or more races 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Pieper

Pieper has the Soundex code P160, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P160.

Questions

How common is the surname Pieper?: 6,860 people in the United States had the surname Pieper in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 45,007 Americans. It ranked 5,103rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Pieper?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Pieper identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Pieper getting more or less common?: More common. 6,734 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,860 in 2010, up 1.9%.