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The PIPER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 21,526 1537 0.008 80
United States (1880 census) 7,079 849 0.014 142
Change since 1880 +14447 -688 -0.006 -62
Other Countries
Australia 2,163 740 0.013 132
United Kingdom 7,233 859 0.016 157
Top States for PIPER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,631 1958 0.005 48
Pennsylvania 1,530 859 0.012 125
Illinois 1,332 899 0.011 107
Michigan 1,226 845 0.012 123
Texas 1,183 2016 0.006 57
Top States for PIPER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 160 597 0.026 263
New Hampshire 303 610 0.025 245
Maine 257 983 0.020 202
Idaho 226 724 0.017 175
Iowa 406 769 0.014 139

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

Classification and Origin of PIPER

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 PIPER 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 PIPER 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 PIPER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 288 1.34
Mixed Race 280 1.3
Native American/Alaskan 153 0.71
Asian/Pacific 112 0.52
White (Caucasian) 19,072 88.6
Black/African American 1,623 7.54

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

Meaning of PIPER in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of PIPER.

Similar names to PIPER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PIPER.

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 PIPER

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