The surname Tippins
An English patronymic surname, carried by 1,768 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex T152
Origin
English origin
From a Middle English diminutive of the given name Theobald.
Tippins is a patronymic surname: formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
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 1,768 people named Tippins in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 174,630 Americans. That is up 30% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,362.
Who is named Tippins
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
63% of people named Tippins identified as white (not Hispanic), 31% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.2% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 63%
- Black (not Hispanic) 31%
- Two or more races 3.2%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Tippins
Tippins has the Soundex code T152, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T152.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Tippins come from?
- From a Middle English diminutive of the given name Theobald.
- How common is the surname Tippins?
- 1,768 people in the United States had the surname Tippins in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 174,630 Americans. It ranked 16,305th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Tippins?
- In the 2010 Census, 63% of people named Tippins identified as white (not Hispanic), and 31% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Tippins?
- Tippins is a patronymic surname, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
- Is the surname Tippins getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,362 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,768 in 2010, up 30%.