Last Name HOPPER

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Meaning	The hopper, i.e. dancer at fair and festival. A dancer. 'Hoppere,' a dancer.

Origin	English, Scottish, Anglo-Saxon, Jewish, Dutch, Irish, Falkland, Belgian, Hungarian

Rank	1,192 (2000 US census)	827 (1990 US census)

Count	26,956 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

89.25%, or 24058 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
6.12%, or 1650 total occurrences, as black,
0.48%, or 129 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
1.06%, or 286 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.22%, or 329 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.87%, or 504 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

English surnames can be divided into five classes: Baptisimal or Personal (first) names, local, official, and occupative surnames. Nicknames represent the last class. Practically there are only four classes, for it is often hard ti distinguish between occupation and offic...

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

Shortest last names

The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...