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The TRIPP surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 19,886 1653 0.007 74
United States (1880 census) 6,152 993 0.012 123
Change since 1880 +13734 -660 -0.005 -49
Other Countries
Australia 356 4449 0.002 22
United Kingdom 1,380 4025 0.003 30
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.

Classification and Origin of TRIPP

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the TRIPP 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 TRIPP 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 TRIPP in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 324 1.63
Mixed Race 314 1.58
Native American/Alaskan 153 0.77
Asian/Pacific 109 0.55
White (Caucasian) 16,818 84.57
Black/African American 2,166 10.89

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

Meaning of TRIPP in historical publications

According to tradition, this name was given to Lord Howard's fifth son, at the siege of Boulogne. King Henry V. being there, asked how they took the town and castle. Howard answered, "I tripp'd up the walls." Saith his majesty, "Tripp shall be thy name, and no longer Howard," and honored him with a scaling-ladder for his coat of arms. This tradition, as well as many others I have given, is not very probable, but I give them insertion because they are curious and amusing, and some of them may be founded on actual occurrences.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


TRIPP. The family trace by deeds to temp. Hen. VIII. in co. Somerset ; but tradition derives them from the illustrious race of Howard, and accounts for the name, and the " scaling ladder" in their arms, by the following wretched little anecdote, inscribed beneath an old family ' achievement ' : —

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 TRIPP

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as TRIPP.

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 TRIPP

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