# Whipple (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/whipple/  
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) | 13,850 |
| US rank (2010) | 2,602 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 22,292 people |
| Change since 2000 | +3.5% (13,387 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Whipple 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) | 85% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 8.0% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.1% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 2.7% |
| Two or more races | 1.8% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Whipple in the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain.

## People named Whipple

- George Whipple, American physician and biomedical researcher (1878–1976)
- Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer
- Mary Whipple, American rower
- William Whipple, American politician and Founding Father (1730-1785)
- John Adams Whipple, American photographer (1822–1891)
- Allen Whipple, American surgeon (1881–1963)
- Sam Whipple, American actor (1960-2002)
- George C. Whipple, American civil engineer (1866-1924)
- Gwen Walz, American educator (born 1966)

## Similar surnames

Wible, Weibel, Waibel, Wyble.

## 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.