Kiper
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kiper is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. In Dominica it is the 7th most common surname. In Polish, recorded as taster, tester (person who tastes something, especially food, wine, etc., for quality).
- USUnited States1 in 302K(measured from records)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 27K
- TNTunisia≈1 in 44K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 211 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
metonymic occupational name for a coppersmith, from central and southeastern Yiddish kiper ‘copper’. In some instances it may have been adopted as an ornamental name.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Kiper is read(measured from records)
Kiper is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English45%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kiper in English.
- Turkish37%
Canlı, dayanıklı, sağlam kimse.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Polish7.6%
taster, tester (person who tastes something, especially food, wine, etc., for quality)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kiper counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Kiper | 17 |
| US United States | — | 1,100 | 1 in 302K | 1.3K | Kiper | 211 |
| PL Poland | — | 537 | 1 in 71K | 274 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 288 | 1 in 735K | 288 | Kiper | 25 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Kiper | 2 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 346K | — | Kiper | 5 |
| DM Dominica | #7 | — | — | — | Kiper | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kiper is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
metonymic occupational name for a coppersmith, from central and southeastern Yiddish kiper ‘copper’. In some instances it may have been adopted as an ornamental name.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Altered form of East Prussian Keiper, occupational name for someone who caught fish in a trap, from an agent derivative of keip ‘fish trap’, ‘weir’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Altered form of German Kaufer ‘merchant’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Americanized spelling of Dutch Kuiper or North German Keuper, occupational name for a cooper.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Herbert Kiperb. 1897DEGerman actor and author (1897-1978)
- Müfit Kiperb. 1912TRTurkish actor (1912–1974)
- Manuel Kiperb. 1949DEGerman politician (1949–2022)
- Mel Kiper, Jr.b. 1960USAmerican football analyst
- Daniel Kiperb. 1960CHneuroscience researcher in Zurich
- Hakan Kiperb. 1973TRTurkish swimmer (born 1973)
- Elena Kiperb. 1975RURussian composer
- Jessica Kiperb. 1979USAmerican actress and singer
- Oleh Kiperb. 1980UAUkrainian prosecutor and provincial governor
- Nele Kiperb. 1983DEGerman actress
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(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #21,026 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #21,479 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,185 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 288 | #27,348 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 274 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 274 | #12,161 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 263 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 263 | #12,424 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Kiper come from?
- metonymic occupational name for a coppersmith, from central and southeastern Yiddish kiper ‘copper’. In some instances it may have been adopted as an ornamental name. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Kiper mean?
- In Polish, taster, tester (person who tastes something, especially food, wine, etc., for quality)
- In which country does Kiper have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.0 thousand people named Kiper in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kiper.
- How common is the name Kiper?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,100 people named Kiper in 2010, about 1 in 302 thousand residents.
- How common is Kiper compared with other names?
- In Dominica, Kiper is the 7th most common surname of 841 surnames recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kiper” — the 7th most common surname in Dominica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.