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    The surname Shippey

    An English place surname, carried by 684 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S100

    Shippey: #33,379 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Shippey #33,379, 684 people Shippey: #33,379 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Shippey #33,379, 684 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shippey is more common than 79.4% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    "Dweller at the isle where the sheep are kept", from Old English sċēap (“sheep”) + īeg (“island”).

    Shippey is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 684 people named Shippey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 451,382 Americans. That is down 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 781.

    #33,379
    rank among US surnames
    684
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -12.4%
    change since 2000 (was #28,700)

    Who is named Shippey

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

    88% of people named Shippey identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 88%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 4.2%
    • Two or more races 2.9%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Shippey

    Shippey has the Soundex code S100, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S100.

    Other English surnames

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    Questions

    Where does the surname Shippey come from?
    "Dweller at the isle where the sheep are kept", from Old English sċēap (“sheep”) + īeg (“island”).
    How common is the surname Shippey?
    684 people in the United States had the surname Shippey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 451,382 Americans. It ranked 33,379th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Shippey?
    In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Shippey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Shippey?
    Shippey is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Shippey getting more or less common?
    Less common. 781 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 684 in 2010, down 12%.