Earp

At the 2020 census, 3,496 Americans bore the surname Earp — 8,981st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 85,500.

By the numbers

People: 3,496
Rank: 8,981st
How common: 1 in 85,500
Per 100,000: 1.2

Where the name comes from

The definitive origin is unclear. Some are proposed, including Old English eorp (“swarthy”), from Proto-Germanic *erpaz (“light brown”); or a connection to the placenames Ypres (Belgium) or Erpe (Netherlands).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Earp described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 87.6%
Black, not Hispanic 3.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Earp

Wyatt Earp (1848–1929)American lawman
Virgil Earp (1843–1905)deputy US marshal and soldier

People named Earp with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Earp

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.