Lipkin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. patronymic from a pet form of the personal name Lipe (see Lippe 1) + the eastern Slavic possessive suffix -in
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Lipkin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 86K(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 98K
- SESweden1 in 217K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lipkin itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 286 (measured from records)
- 1 in 86K (inferred from the name graph)
1,072 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled ליפקין in IL Israel, BY Belarus.
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)1. patronymic from a pet form of the personal name Lipe (see Lippe 1) + the eastern Slavic possessive suffix -in. 2. metronymic from a pet form of the female personal name Libe (see Lipka 3).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lipkin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,072 | 1 in 310K | 1.1K | Lipkin | 286 |
| IL Israel | 438as ליפקין | 1 in 20K | 438 | ליפקין | 26 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 385K | — | Lipkin | 52 |
| CA Canada | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 276K | — | Lipkin | 23 |
| FI Finland | 65 | 1 in 86K | 65 | — | 5 |
| BY Belarus | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 183K | — | ליפקין | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 138K | — | Lipkin | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 98K | listed | — | 5 |
1,072 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2000; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Israel Salanterb. 1810LTnot in their usual nameLithuanian rabbi (1810–1883)
- Yom Tov Lipman Lipkinb. 1846LTRussian mathematician
- Semyon Lipkinb. 1911RURussian poet (1911-2003)
- Harry J. Lipkinb. 1921USIsraeli theoretical physicist (1921-2015)
- Yaakov Lipkinb. 1935ILIsraeli botanist
- Amnon Lipkin-Shahakb. 1944IL15th Chief of General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1944–2012)
- Dennis Avi Lipkinb. 1949USPolitician, Author, Lecturer
- W. Ian Lipkinb. 1952USprofessor, microbiologist, epidemiologist
- Binyamin Lipkinb. 1974ILChabad, Hasidic author and newspaper editor
- Ehud LipkinILresearcher
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #21,791 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,647 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1K | #25,049 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 65 | #18,096 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 21 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Lipkin come from?
- 1. patronymic from a pet form of the personal name Lipe (see Lippe 1) + the eastern Slavic possessive suffix -in. 2. metronymic from a pet form of the female personal name Libe (see Lipka 3). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Lipkin mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. patronymic from a pet form of the personal name Lipe (see Lippe 1) + the eastern Slavic possessive suffix -in.
- In which country does Lipkin have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Lipkin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lipkin.
- Where is Lipkin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lipkin is densest in Finland — about 1 in 86 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lipkin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,072 people named Lipkin in 2010, about 1 in 310 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lipkinThe 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, “Lipkin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.