Hopper

At the 2020 census, 26,014 Americans bore the surname Hopper — 1,328th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 11,500.

By the numbers

People: 26,014
Rank: 1,328th
How common: 1 in 11,500
Per 100,000: 8.7

Where the name comes from

As an English and Scottish surname, from the verb hop; identical to hopper.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 84.0%
Black, not Hispanic 6.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Hopper

Grace Hopper (1906–1992)American computer scientist and United States Navy officer
Dennis Hopper (1936–2010)American actor and film director
Edward Hopper (1882–1967)American realist painter and printmaker
Hedda Hopper (1885–1966)American gossip columnist and actress
Tom Hopper (born 1985)British actor
William Hopper (1915–1970)American actor
Hugh Hopper (1945–2009)English bass guitarist
E. Mason Hopper (1885–1967)film director

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

Surnames like Hopper

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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.