Whipple
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Perhaps person who lives by a whipple tree, a medieval name for a tree of uncertain identity, perhaps the cornel
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/wɪpəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Whipple is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 24K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 5.4M
- PLPoland1 in 5.5M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 47 (measured from records)
- 1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
13,850 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Perhaps person who lives by a whipple tree, a medieval name for a tree of uncertain identity, perhaps the cornel.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Whipple 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.
13,850 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Whipple 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, diminutive of OE Wippa; first attested Thomas Wypel Ed I Battle
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, graphic name for someone who lived by a whipple tree. Chaucer lists the whippletree together with the maple, thorn, beech, hazel, and yew; the word apparently denotes the cornel tree, and is a cogn. of MLG wipelbom. Whiscard see Wish art
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, G. H., US pathologist (Nobel 1934)
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)
- William Whippleb. 1730USAmerican politician and Founding Father (1730-1785)
- Thomas Whippleb. 1787USAmerican politician (1787–1835)
- Amiel Weeks Whippleb. 1817USUnion Army General
- Henry Benjamin Whippleb. 1822USBishop of Minnesota (1822–1901)
- George Whippleb. 1878USAmerican physician and biomedical researcher (1878–1976)
- Allen Oldfather Whippleb. 1881USAmerican surgeon (1881–1963)
- Fred Whippleb. 1906USAmerican astronomer
- Sam Whippleb. 1960USAmerican actor (1960-2002)
- Gwen Walzb. 1966USnot in their usual nameAmerican educator (born 1966)
- Mary Whippleb. 1980USAmerican rower
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 15 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 14K | #2,602 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 13K | #2,471 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 13K | #2,674 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #245,543 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #297,920 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #168,998 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 2 | #24,207 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #160,888 |
| 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 Whipple mean, and where does it come from?
- Perhaps person who lives by a whipple tree, a medieval name for a tree of uncertain identity, perhaps the cornel. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Whipple?
- A machine transcription gives /wɪpəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Whipple have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Whipple, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled whipple.
- Where is Whipple most common?
- Whipple is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 24 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Whipple?
- In the United States, the national register counted 13,850 people named Whipple in 2010, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/whippleThe 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, “Whipple”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.