Tippett
surname · Latin script
Meaning: diminutive of TIPP; first attested Wimer Tippet’ c1250 Rams(Huntingdonshire)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈtɪpɪt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tippett is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 77K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 5M
- CZCzechia1 in 11M
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 Tippett itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 77K (inferred from the name graph)
4,344 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
diminutive of TIPP; first attested Wimer Tippet’ c1250 Rams(Huntingdonshire)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tippett 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 | 4,344 | 1 in 77K | 4.3K | Tippett | 10 |
| ES Spain | 10 | 1 in 5M | 10 | — | — |
| RU Russia | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 132M | — | Tippett | 2 |
| CZ Czechia | 1 | 1 in 11M | 1 | — | — |
| UA Ukraine | — | — | — | Tippett | 1 |
4,344 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Tippett is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A surname originating as a patronymic.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, a different form of Tebbit.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In English, Sir Michael, English composer
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper 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)
- Michael Tippettb. 1905GBEnglish composer (1905-1996)
- Maria Tippettb. 1944CACanadian writer and cultural historian
- Keith Tippettb. 1947GBBritish jazz pianist and composer (1947–2020)
- Phil Tippettb. 1951USAmerican film director
- Andre Tippettb. 1959USAmerican football player
- Krista Tippettb. 1960USAmerican broadcaster
- Dave Tippettb. 1961CACanadian ice hockey player
- Joe Tippettb. 1982USAmerican actor
- Bradley Tippettb. 1988AUAustralian baseball player
- Owen Tippettb. 1999CACanadian ice hockey forward
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)
Attested in 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.3K | #7,644 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4K | #7,620 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.8K | #8,263 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 10 | #120,154 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #251,947 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Tippett mean, and where does it come from?
- diminutive of TIPP; first attested Wimer Tippet’ c1250 Rams(Huntingdonshire) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Tippett?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtɪpɪt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tippett have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.3 thousand people named Tippett, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tippett.
- Where is Tippett most common?
- Tippett is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 77 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tippett?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,344 people named Tippett in 2010, about 1 in 77 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tippett?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tippettThe 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, “Tippett”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.