Tripp
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tripp is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Liberia it is the 7th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ‘dancer’ or nickname for someone who walked oddly; from Middle English trippen ‘to tread lightly, skip’.
- USUnited States1 in 16K◐
- CACanada1 in 17K
- AUAustralia1 in 23K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈20K ●
- Sources
- 377 ●
- 1 in 16K ◐
across 9 countries
199K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Meaning & origin●
‘dancer’ or nickname for someone who walked oddly; from Middle English trippen ‘to tread lightly, skip’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 20,434 | 168K rec. | 1 in 16K | 20K | Tripp | 377 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 8,985 | 8.8K rec. | — | listed | Tripp | 108 |
| CA Canada | — | 4,291 | 4.3K rec. | — | 9 | Tripp | 91 |
| AU Australia | — | 3,636 | 3.6K rec. | — | — | Tripp | 87 |
| DE Germany | — | 2,439 | 2.3K rec. | — | listed | Tripp | 74 |
| IT Italy | — | 914 | 970 rec. | — | — | Tripp | 9 |
| LR Liberia | #7 | 545 | 1.7K rec. | — | — | Tripp | 1 |
| RU Russia | — | 494 | 555 rec. | — | — | Tripp | 7 |
| SG Singapore | — | 429 | 448 rec. | — | — | Tripp | 10 |
| IE Ireland | — | 361 | 395 rec. | — | — | Tripp | 6 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | 361 | 347 rec. | — | — | Tripp | 31 |
| EG Egypt | — | 255 | 266 rec. | — | — | Tripp | 3 |
Roughly 20K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 16K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English181K85%
- Spanish6.8K3%
- German5.6K3%
- 3.6K2%
- French2.2K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 180,886 | 85% |
| Spanish | 6,752 | 3% |
| German | 5,601 | 3% |
| 3,590 | 2% | |
| French | 2,168 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Tripp is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, either variant of Tripe or metonymic for Tripper; first attested Gilbert Trip 1275 RH (W)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In German, from nd. "Überschuh"; related to the Germanic base for a shoe or overshoe
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, Berufsname bzw. Übername zu mnd. trippe 'Pantoffel mit hölzerner Sohle'; vermutlich Bezug auf Trippenhersteller/-träger (530 Belege).
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Berufsname zum Schuhmacher oder Übername für auffällige Schuhe; 530 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In English, Traveler
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1957 | 6 |
| 1959 | 5 |
| 1960 | 6 |
| 1961 | 6 |
| 1962 | 7 |
| 1963 | 6 |
| 1964 | 11 |
| 1966 | 6 |
| 1968 | 8 |
| 1970 | 9 |
| 1971 | 12 |
| 1972 | 7 |
| 1973 | 8 |
| 1974 | 9 |
| 1975 | 7 |
| 1976 | 12 |
| 1977 | 10 |
| 1978 | 8 |
| 1979 | 5 |
| 1981 | 10 |
| 1982 | 6 |
| 1984 | 8 |
| 1987 | 7 |
| 1990 | 7 |
| 1991 | 9 |
| 1992 | 7 |
| 1993 | 8 |
| 1994 | 8 |
| 1995 | 9 |
| 1996 | 11 |
| 1997 | 16 |
| 1998 | 15 |
| 1999 | 16 |
| 2000 | 23 |
| 2001 | 22 |
| 2002 | 23 |
| 2003 | 28 |
| 2004 | 34 |
| 2005 | 41 |
| 2006 | 113 |
| 2007 | 175 |
| 2008 | 219 |
| 2009 | 362 |
| 2010 | 359 |
| 2011 | 351 |
| 2012 | 368 |
| 2013 | 387 |
| 2014 | 379 |
| 2015 | 365 |
| 2016 | 340 |
| 2017 | 365 |
| 2018 | 389 |
| 2019 | 491 |
| 2020 | 610 |
| 2021 | 692 |
| 2022 | 711 |
| 2023 | 674 |
| 2024 | 597 |
| 2025 | 572 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 59 years between 1957–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Frances Elizabeth Trippb. 1832GBBritish author, scientific illustrator, botanist and botanical collector (1832-1890)
- Bartlett Trippb. 1839USAmerican judge (1839-1911)
- June Trippb. 1901GBBritish actress (1901-1985)
- Paul Trippb. 1911USAmerican musician (1911–2002)
- Susan M. Ervin-Trippb. 1927USAmerican linguist (1927-2018)
- Wallace Trippb. 1940USAmerican illustrator and children's writer (1940-2018)
- Art Trippb. 1944USAmerican musician
- Linda Trippb. 1949USAmerican civil servant (1949-2020)
- Chester E. Tripp IIIb. 1959USAmerican actor
- John Trippb. 1977CACanadian ice hockey player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 30 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 20K | #1,753 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 20K | #1,653 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 20K | #1,764 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5.2K | #3,793 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 711 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 692 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 674 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 610 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 597 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 572 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 491 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 389 | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 122 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Tripp?
- We estimate roughly 20 thousand people bear Tripp (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Tripp have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 20 thousand people bear Tripp in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled tripp.
- How common is Tripp compared with other names?
- In Liberia, Tripp is the 7th most common surname of 6,092 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Tripp mean?
- Recorded meaning: ‘dancer’ or nickname for someone who walked oddly; from Middle English trippen ‘to tread lightly, skip’.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tripp” — the 7th most common surname in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.