Lippe
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the river/region Lippe; also related forms from ON Lipp and Theodoricus (Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈlɪpə/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Lippe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 39K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 39K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 180K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 201 (measured from records)
- 1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Lippe
- German:/ˈlɪpə/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Spanish:/liβpe/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from the river/region Lippe; also related forms from ON Lipp and Theodoricus
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Lippe is found
(measured from records)Lippe 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Lippe | 103 |
| US United States | 955 | 1 in 348K | 955 | Lippe | 201 |
| BR Brazil | 320 | 1 in 662K | 320 | — | 2 |
| CA Canada | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 201K | — | Lippe | 31 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 351K | listed | Lippe | 41 |
| NO Norway | 142 | 1 in 39K | 142 | Lippe | 21 |
| AT Austria | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Lippe | 26 |
| EE Estonia | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 180K | listed | — | 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; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)Lippe is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
topographic name (of Slavic origin) for someone who lived among lime trees, from lipa ‘lime’. Compare Lipinski.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
habitational name from the duchy of Lippe, which became an independent state in the 12th cenmry.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
3. German: topographic name for someone living on the banks of the Lippe river in Westphalia.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, Eher Ableitung vom Flussnamen Lippe und entsprechenden Siedlungs-/Landschaftsnamen; konkurriert mit Übername zu mnd. lipe 'Lippe'. 691 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, Rufname-Kurzform zu Philippus/Philipp; in Ostfalen, auf der Baar, in Regensburg und München belegt; auch zu Lippold möglich.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
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)- Leopold I, Prince of Lippeb. 1767DEGerman prince
- Leopold II, Prince of Lippeb. 1796DESovereign of the Principality of Lippe
- Leopold III, Prince of Lippeb. 1821DEGerman royal (1821–1875)
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)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lippe mean, and where does it come from?
- from the river/region Lippe; also related forms from ON Lipp and Theodoricus Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Lippe?
- It depends on the language: in German /ˈlɪpə/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /liβpe/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Lippe?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Lippe in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lippe. After it come United States, Brazil, Canada and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Lippe most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lippe is densest in Norway — about 1 in 39 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lippe?
- In the United States, the national register counted 955 people named Lippe in 2010, about 1 in 348 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/lippeThe 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, “Lippe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.