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    The surname Yapp

    An English nickname surname, carried by 542 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex Y100

    Yapp: #40,371 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Yapp #40,371, 542 people Yapp: #40,371 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Yapp #40,371, 542 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Yapp is more common than 75.1% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Nickname for a clever or cunning person, from Middle English yap (“deceitful, shrewd”), from Old English gēap (“crooked, bent; devious, cunning”).

    Yapp is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

    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 542 people named Yapp in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 569,641 Americans. That is up 2.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 528.

    #40,371
    rank among US surnames
    542
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.7%
    change since 2000 (was #39,240)

    Who is named Yapp

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

    69% of people named Yapp identified as white (not Hispanic), 13% as Black (not Hispanic) and 9.8% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

    • White (not Hispanic) 69%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 13%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 9.8%
    • Two or more races 4.6%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Hispanic, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Yapp

    Yapp has the Soundex code Y100, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code Y100.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Yapp come from?
    Nickname for a clever or cunning person, from Middle English yap (“deceitful, shrewd”), from Old English gēap (“crooked, bent; devious, cunning”).
    How common is the surname Yapp?
    542 people in the United States had the surname Yapp in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 569,641 Americans. It ranked 40,371st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Yapp?
    In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Yapp identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Yapp?
    Yapp is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
    Is the surname Yapp getting more or less common?
    More common. 528 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 542 in 2010, up 2.7%.