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The PHIPPS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 22,919 1429 0.008 85
United States (1880 census) 4,697 1332 0.009 94
Change since 1880 +18222 -97 -0.001 -9
Other Countries
Australia 943 1751 0.006 58
United Kingdom 6,083 1032 0.013 132
Top States for PHIPPS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,755 1891 0.005 52
Texas 1,577 1610 0.008 76
Ohio 1,494 893 0.013 132
Virginia 1,162 773 0.016 164
Tennessee 1,145 788 0.020 201
Top States for PHIPPS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 1,145 788 0.020 201
Wyoming 88 617 0.018 178
Iowa 509 597 0.017 174
Kentucky 685 892 0.017 169
Virginia 1,162 773 0.016 164

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called PHIPPS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called PHIPPS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called PHIPPS in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a PHIPPS by picking someone at random in Tennessee than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of PHIPPS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PHIPPS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the PHIPPS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of PHIPPS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 422 1.84
Mixed Race 360 1.57
Native American/Alaskan 128 0.56
Asian/Pacific 94 0.41
White (Caucasian) 19,284 84.14
Black/African American 2,631 11.48

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the PHIPPS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of PHIPPS in historical publications

PIIIPP. PHIPPS. See Philip.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to PHIPPS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PHIPPS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for PHIPPS

The following words are slight variants of PHIPPS that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.