Kuiper

Kuiper is the 11,799th most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,538 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 118,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,538
Rank: 11,799th
How common: 1 in 118,000
Per 100,000: 0.85

Where the name comes from

Origin Dutch

From Dutch Kuiper.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 94.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Kuiper

Gerard Kuiper (1905–1973)Netherlands-born American astronomer
Hennie Kuiper (born 1949)road bicycle racer
Nicky Kuiper (born 1989)Dutch footballer
Nicolaas Kuiper (1920–1994)Dutch mathematician

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

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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.