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The EPPS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 18,780 1747 0.007 70
United States (1880 census) 3,559 1717 0.007 71
Change since 1880 +15221 -30 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 167 8875 0.001 10
United Kingdom 806 6231 0.002 18
Top States for EPPS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 1,839 371 0.046 458
Virginia 1,661 588 0.023 235
Georgia 1,582 768 0.019 193
Texas 1,406 1951 0.007 67
North Carolina 1,188 1168 0.015 148
Top States for EPPS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 1,839 371 0.046 458
Washington DC 186 342 0.033 325
Virginia 1,661 588 0.023 235
Maryland 1,089 580 0.021 206
Georgia 1,582 768 0.019 193

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

Classification and Origin of EPPS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 434 2.31
White (Hispanic) 267 1.42
Native American/Alaskan 214 1.14
Asian/Pacific 53 0.28
Black/African American 11,557 61.54
White (Caucasian) 6,254 33.3

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

Meaning of EPPS in historical publications

EPPS. The genitive form of an old per.sonal name. A Roger Epjje is found in H.E.

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 EPPS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as EPPS.

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 EPPS

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