Find out how popular the last name Lipp is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Lipp.

Lipp, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Lipp surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Lipp in America

Lipp is the 10405th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Lipp surname appeared 3,096 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 people would have the surname Lipp.

We can also compare 2010 data for Lipp to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Lipp

The surname Lipp originates from Germany, with its earliest known records dating back to the 13th century. It likely stems from the Germanic word "lippe," which means "lip" or "edge," suggesting that the name may have initially referred to a person living near a river bank or a ridge.

In the late medieval period, the name Lipp appeared in various German town and village records, such as the Cologne Archives from the 1300s. It was also found in the Codex Diplomaticus Saxoniae Regiae, a collection of historical documents from Saxony, which mentions a "Cunradus Lipp" in 1336.

One of the earliest known bearers of the name Lipp was Hans Lipp, a merchant from Nuremberg, who lived in the late 15th century. Another notable figure was Georg Lipp, a prominent theologian and writer from Strasbourg, who was born in 1554 and died in 1612.

The name Lipp can also be traced to some place names in Germany, such as Lippstadt, a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, which was formerly known as "Lippe." This suggests that the surname may have derived from people who originally hailed from this region.

In the 16th century, the name Lipp was documented in various regions of Germany, including Bavaria, where a certain Michael Lipp was recorded as a landowner in 1589. Around the same time, the name appeared in the records of the city of Augsburg, with a mention of a "Johannes Lipp" in 1583.

Other notable individuals with the surname Lipp throughout history include Johann Lipp (1611-1677), a German composer and organist from Saxony, and Johann Adam Lipp (1775-1846), a German painter and engraver from Nuremberg. In the 19th century, there was also a German-American businessman named Jacob Lipp (1820-1885), who founded a successful brewery in Philadelphia.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Lipp

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Lipp.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Lipp was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Lipp has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Lipp was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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