How common is the surname Reep?

3,858 people in the United States had the surname Reep in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 80,027 Americans. It ranked 8,529th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Reep getting more or less common?

More common. 3,288 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,858 in 2010, up 17%.

The surname Reep

A Dutch occupational surname, carried by 3,858 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex R100

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Reep is more common than 94.7% of them.

Origin

Dutch origin

Borrowed from Dutch Reep, an occupational surname for a ropemaker, from reep (“rope”). Compare Roper, Reeb. Also an English metonymic occupational surname for a porter or a basket maker, from Middle English hrip (“basket”), from Old Norse hrip, from Proto-Germanic *hrepaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend”). Also as an English surname, from the verb reap. Compare Ripper.

Reep is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

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 3,858 people named Reep in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 80,027 Americans. That is up 17% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,288.

#8,529

rank among US surnames

3,858

people in 2010

1.3

per 100,000 Americans

+17.3%

change since 2000 (was #9,125)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,525	Sines	3,861	79,965
#8,526	Mathers	3,860	79,986
#8,527	Drain	3,859	80,007
#8,529	Moretti	3,858	80,027
#8,532	Mannino	3,857	80,048
#8,534	Ludlow	3,856	80,069

Who is named Reep

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

86% of people named Reep identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 86%
Black (not Hispanic) 8.2%
Two or more races 2.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Reep

Reep has the Soundex code R100, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R100.

Other Dutch surnames

All 167 Dutch surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Reep come from?: Borrowed from Dutch Reep, an occupational surname for a ropemaker, from reep (“rope”). Compare Roper, Reeb. Also an English metonymic occupational surname for a porter or a basket maker, from Middle English hrip (“basket”), from Old Norse hrip, from Proto-Germanic *hrepaz, from Proto-Indo-European…
How common is the surname Reep?: 3,858 people in the United States had the surname Reep in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 80,027 Americans. It ranked 8,529th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Reep?: In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Reep identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Reep?: Reep is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Reep getting more or less common?: More common. 3,288 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,858 in 2010, up 17%.