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The KNIPE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,539 17014 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 559 8831 0.001 11
Change since 1880 +980 -8183 0 -5
Other Countries
Australia 210 7230 0.001 13
United Kingdom 876 5852 0.002 19
Top States for KNIPE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 199 7825 0.002 16
California 161 15601 0.000 5
Texas 110 14692 0.001 5
Florida 88 19492 0.001 6
New Jersey 85 11914 0.001 10
Top States for KNIPE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Idaho 25 7445 0.002 19
West Virginia 33 5112 0.002 18
Pennsylvania 199 7825 0.002 16
Nebraska 25 11085 0.001 15
Oregon 47 9476 0.001 14

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

Classification and Origin of KNIPE

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 KNIPE 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 KNIPE 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 KNIPE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 23 1.49
Mixed Race 20 1.3
Black/African American 18 1.17
Native American/Alaskan 13 0.84
Asian/Pacific 7 0.45
White (Caucasian) 1,458 94.74

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

Meaning of KNIPE in historical publications

KNIPE. A mountain in Ayrsliire — parish of New Crunnock.

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 KNIPE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KNIPE.

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 KNIPE

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