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The RIPLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,892 3670 0.003 33
United States (1880 census) 3,468 1764 0.007 69
Change since 1880 +5424 -1906 -0.004 -36
Other Countries
Australia 147 10095 0.001 9
United Kingdom 2,618 2359 0.006 57
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 RIPLEY

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 RIPLEY 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 RIPLEY 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 RIPLEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 262 2.95
White (Hispanic) 176 1.98
Mixed Race 156 1.75
Asian/Pacific 109 1.23
Native American/Alaskan 47 0.53
White (Caucasian) 8,142 91.57

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

Meaning of RIPLEY in historical publications

(origin: Local) A market-town in west Yorkshire, England, from the Saxon rypan, to divide or separate, and ley, uncultivated lands, a pasture.

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


RIPLEY. Places in Surrey, Derby, and Yorkshire. RIPPINGTON, See Repton.

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 RIPLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RIPLEY.

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 RIPLEY

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