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The PHIPPEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 836 27207 0 3
United States (1880 census) 213 18436 0 4
Change since 1880 +623 -8771 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 65 20681 0 4
United Kingdom 416 10148 0.001 9
Top States for PHIPPEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 97 24096 0.000 3
New York 97 19568 0.001 5
Utah 86 3289 0.004 39
Iowa 82 5463 0.003 28
Massachusetts 57 13822 0.001 9
Top States for PHIPPEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 86 3289 0.004 39
Iowa 82 5463 0.003 28
Maine 27 6036 0.002 21
Idaho 27 6895 0.002 21
Alaska 7 15662 0.001 11

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called PHIPPEN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called PHIPPEN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called PHIPPEN in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a PHIPPEN by picking someone at random in Utah than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of PHIPPEN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Diminutive

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PHIPPEN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the PHIPPEN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of PHIPPEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 800 95.69
White (Hispanic) 15 1.79
Mixed Race 12 1.44
Native American/Alaskan 5 0.6
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the PHIPPEN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of PHIPPEN in historical publications

A corruption of Fitz Penn, from the Norman, Fitz, a son, and Penn. The son of Penn.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


PHIPPEN. See Philip.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to PHIPPEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PHIPPEN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for PHIPPEN

The following words are slight variants of PHIPPEN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.