# Tappan (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/tappan/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,373 |
| US rank (2010) | 19,642 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 224,869 people |
| Change since 2000 | +1.9% (1,347 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Tappan in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 89% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 5.2% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.9% |
| Two or more races | 0.9% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Tappan in the United States.

## People named Tappan

- Benjamin Tappan, American politician (1773-1857)
- Arthur Tappan, American abolitionist (1786-1865)
- Helen Niña Tappan Loeblich, American micropaleontologist (1917-2004)

## Similar surnames

Tobin, Tiffany, Tobon, Topham, Tufano.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.