Lipke
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Rufname-Kurzform zu Philippus/Philipp; in Ostfalen, auf der Baar, in Regensburg und München belegt; auch zu Lippold möglich (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Lipke is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Rufname-Kurzform zu Philippus/Philipp; in Ostfalen, auf der Baar, in Regensburg und München belegt; auch zu Lippold möglich.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lipke counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 419 | — |
| PL Poland | — | 143 | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 47 | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 7 | — |
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 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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)Lipke is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Slovak, dative/locative singular of lipka
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Gustav Lipkeb. 1820DEGerman lawyer (1820-1889)
- Paul Lipkeb. 1870DEGerman chess player (1870–1955)
- Jānis Lipkeb. 1900LVLatvian rescuer of Jews during the Holocaust (1900-1987)
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lipke mean?
- Recorded meaning: Rufname-Kurzform zu Philippus/Philipp; in Ostfalen, auf der Baar, in Regensburg und München belegt; auch zu Lippold möglich.
- In which country does Lipke have the most bearers?
- Lipke is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Lipke?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lipkeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Lipke” — ranked 19285th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.