Ripper
surname · Latin script
Meaning: made or sold baskets, or else carried wares about in a bas¬ ket, from an agent deriv
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ripper is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 105K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 426K
- ATAustria≈1 in 87K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 212 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 87K (inferred from the name graph)
781 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
made or sold baskets, or else carried wares about in a bas¬ ket, from an agent deriv. of ME (h)rip basket (ON hrip). Vars. (of i): Rhind, Rhynd. Rinelli see Perrin
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ripper 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 | 781 | 1 in 426K | 845 | Ripper | 212 |
| DE Germany | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Ripper | 72 |
| AU Australia | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Ripper | 83 |
| BR Brazil | 264 | 1 in 802K | 264 | — | 3 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 133K | — | Ripper | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Ripper | 19 |
| SG Singapore | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 94K | — | Ripper | 7 |
781 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Ripper is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, or sold baskets, or else carried wares about in a basket, from an agent deriv. of ME (h)rip basket (ON hrip).
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, Something that rips something else.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, maker, seller or carrier of baskets; from Middle English rip “basket”
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In English, from ME (h)rip ‘basket’, for a maker or seller of baskets; first attested Adam le Ripier(e) 1279 RH (Oxfordshire)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
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)
- Juliusz Ripperb. 1847PLAdmiral of the Austro-Hungarian navy
- Alice Ripperb. 1889HUHungarian pianist
- Esmé Wynne-Tysonb. 1898GBnot in their usual nameEnglish actress and writer (1898-1972)
- Jan Ripperb. 1903PLPolish racecar driver
- Rudolph Carl von Ripperb. 1905ATAustro-Hungarian-born American artist and soldier (1905-1960)
- Mopsa Sternheimb. 1905ATnot in their usual nameStage and costume designer from Germany
- Michael Ripperb. 1913GBBritish actor (1913-2000)
- Eric Ripperb. 1951AUretired Western Australian politician
- Velcrow Ripperb. 1963CACanadian filmmaker
- Georgie Ripperb. 1977GBBritish artist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 845 | #26,987 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 823 | #30,403 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 781 | #30,043 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 264 | #29,329 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Ripper come from?
- made or sold baskets, or else carried wares about in a bas¬ ket, from an agent deriv. of ME (h)rip basket (ON hrip). Vars. (of i): Rhind, Rhynd. Rinelli see Perrin Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- What does the name Ripper mean?
- Recorded meaning: made or sold baskets, or else carried wares about in a bas¬ ket, from an agent deriv.
- In which country does Ripper have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 781 people named Ripper, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ripper.
- How common is the name Ripper?
- In the United States, the national register counted 781 people named Ripper in 2010, about 1 in 426 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ripperThe 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, “Ripper”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.