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    The surname Tappe

    A surname, carried by 758 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex T100

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Tappe is more common than 81.1% of them.

    Origin

    * As a north German surname, from a Low German representative of Zapfen (“tap, draw, spigot”). * Also as a German (and sometimes English) surname, variant of Tapp.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 758 people named Tappe in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 407,316 Americans. That is up 6.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 710.

    #30,735
    rank among US surnames
    758
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.8%
    change since 2000 (was #30,929)

    Who is named Tappe

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

    92% of people named Tappe identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as two or more races and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Two or more races 2.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.7%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Tappe

    Tappe has the Soundex code T100, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T100.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Tappe come from?
    * As a north German surname, from a Low German representative of Zapfen (“tap, draw, spigot”). * Also as a German (and sometimes English) surname, variant of Tapp.
    How common is the surname Tappe?
    758 people in the United States had the surname Tappe in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 407,316 Americans. It ranked 30,735th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Tappe?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Tappe identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Tappe getting more or less common?
    More common. 710 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 758 in 2010, up 6.8%.