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    The surname Shippy

    A surname, carried by 1,988 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S100

    Shippy: #14,881 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Shippy #14,881, 1,988 people Shippy: #14,881 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Shippy #14,881, 1,988 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shippy is more common than 90.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,988 people named Shippy in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 155,305 Americans. That is up 9.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,818.

    #14,881
    rank among US surnames
    1,988
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +9.4%
    change since 2000 (was #14,932)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #14,876Bajwa1,990155,149
    #14,878Townson1,989155,227
    #14,881Bate1,988155,305

    Who is named Shippy

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

    78% of people named Shippy identified as white (not Hispanic), 18% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 78%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 18%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Shippy

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

    Questions

    How common is the surname Shippy?
    1,988 people in the United States had the surname Shippy in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 155,305 Americans. It ranked 14,881st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Shippy?
    In the 2010 Census, 78% of people named Shippy identified as white (not Hispanic), and 18% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Shippy getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,818 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,988 in 2010, up 9.4%.