The Lippens surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 406 people carried this name — #51,281 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 714,300 people counted. That is down 2% from 414 in 2000.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 2,043 people named Lippens live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in East Flanders.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 196 people named Lippens.
18 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 13 départements, most often Nord.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
29 people named Lippens is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Lippens,
with a public archive behind them.
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Polydoor Lippens 1810–1889 · engineer -
Stéphanie Lippens 1823–1906 · philanthropist -
Maurice Lippens 1875–1956 · lawyer -
Maria Clara Lippens 1786–1856
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Mathilde Bourdon 1817–1888 · writer
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Auguste Lippens 1818–1892 · politician
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Lippens.
- Liotta 1,407 · U.S. census
- Liou 1,162 · U.S. census
- Lipari 2,048 · U.S. census
- Lipinski 3,615 · U.S. census
- Lipka 1,665 · U.S. census
- Lipp 3,096 · U.S. census
- Lippert 5,794 · U.S. census
- Lippi 434 · U.S. census
- Lippmann 528 · U.S. census
- Lips 603 · U.S. census
- Lira 14,758 · U.S. census
- Lirot 163 · U.S. census
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