Last Name HIPPS

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Meaning	The son of Hibbert, from nickname Hib and diminutive Hib-kin, sharpened to Hip and Hipkin. The East-coast instances seem to point to the Low Countries as the home of this last name. Hubert or Hobart was a well known first name in county Norfolk in the surname period.

Origin	English, Jewish, Irish

Rank	11,879 (2000 US census)	11,369 (1990 US census)

Count	2,413 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

87.48%, or 2111 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
10.03%, or 242 total occurrences, as black,
0.41%, or 10 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.29%, or 7 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
0.79%, or 19 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
0.99%, or 24 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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