Phipps

22,387 people in the United States were counted with the surname Phipps in the 2020 census, making it the 1,563rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 13,400.

By the numbers

People: 22,387
Rank: 1,563rd
How common: 1 in 13,400
Per 100,000: 7.5

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

From Middle English Phipp, a diminutive of Philip + genitive (mainly patronymic) suffix.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 78.4%
Black, not Hispanic 12.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Phipps

Constantine Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave (1744–1792)British explorer
William Edward Phipps (1922–2018)American actor and film producer
Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby (1797–1863)British Whig politician and author
Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave (1755–1831)British Army general
James Phipps (1788–1853)English child given cowpox vaccine

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

Surnames like Phipps

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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.