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The LIPSCOMBE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 230 77472 0 1
United States (1880 census) 96 32392 0 2
Change since 1880 +134 -45080 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 402 3929 0.002 25
United Kingdom 1,216 4461 0.003 26
Top States for LIPSCOMBE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 44 16294 0.001 6
Maryland 26 23778 0.000 5
Texas 21 60579 0.000 1
New York 18 110487 0.000 1
California 16 142362 0.000 0
Top States for LIPSCOMBE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington DC 4 16652 0.001 7
Virginia 44 16294 0.001 6
Maryland 26 23778 0.000 5
Delaware 3 43962 0.000 4
South Carolina 13 24670 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of LIPSCOMBE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 130 56.52
Black/African American 88 38.26
Mixed Race 8 3.48
Asian/Pacific None reported 0
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of LIPSCOMBE in historical publications

LIPSCOMBE. Probably from Liscombe, a parish in Buckinghamshire.

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 LIPSCOMBE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LIPSCOMBE.

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 LIPSCOMBE

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