The Pipkin surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 5,604 people carried this name — #6,119 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 52,600 people counted. That is up 4% from 5,411 in 2000.

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In Argentina’s national register

At least 38 people named Pipkin live in Argentina.

RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in City of Buenos Aires.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

City of Buenos Aires 27
Buenos Aires Province 11

RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.

In the first U.S. census, 1790

20 families named Pipkin, or a close spelling, were counted in 1790.

Each family is counted by its head. About 132 people lived in those households, 6.6 to a family on average. The census counted these spellings together: Pipkin, Pipkins. The table lists white heads of families only, in the twelve states whose 1790 records survive; Virginia’s figures come from state lists of 1782–1785.

Families, by state

North Carolina 18
Vermont 1
South Carolina 1

U.S. Census Bureau, «A Century of Population Growth from the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth, 1790–1900» (Washington, 1909), table 111, p. 257 — public domain · names carried by at least 100 white persons in 1790.

In print

Pipkin in American newspapers,
1873–1928.

Newspaper page from New-york Tribune carrying the name Pipkin
New-york Tribune 1873-10-18
Newspaper page from Connecticut Western News carrying the name Pipkin
Connecticut Western News 1878-08-22
Newspaper page from Evening Star carrying the name Pipkin
Evening Star 1928-12-10

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 20,749 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Pipkin in Australian newspapers,
1830s–1950s.

371 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Pipkin. The most, 62, date from the 1900s. New South Wales has the most articles, but weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, the name stands out most in Tasmania, at 2.8 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

New South Wales 108
Victoria 89
Tasmania 74
Queensland 42
South Australia 32
Western Australia 22
ACT (Canberra) 1
Northern Territory 1

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Pipkin.

Who carried it

People named Pipkin,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Marvin Pipkin 1889–1977 · chemist

Wikidata (CC0) · 4 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Pipkin,
in the records of 3 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States277 records

277 records of the Pipkin name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 172
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 75
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 9
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 8
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 4
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 4
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 4
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record John D. Pipkin

    Born 1903 in Colorado. Enlisted 1942 at Santa Fe, New Mexico; secondary school teacher. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1999, buried at Sunset Memorial Park Cemetery, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Thomas Dewey Pipkin

    Born 1946; from Farmington, Missouri. U.S. Army, infantryman; killed in action 1967 in Binh Dinh, South Vietnam.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Winifred Pipkin

    Arrived at New York in 1858 aboard the Calhoun from Liverpool, aged 19; servant. From England.

    U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)

Showing 3 of 277 records for Pipkin in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).

Australia44 records

44 records of the Pipkin name in Australia
  • Tasmanian Names Index 41
  • Victoria passenger lists, 1839–1923 2
  • War Office casualty lists, 1917–1919, among the dead 1
  1. A petition to the probate court of St. Louis, 1848
    Example: probate petition, 1848
    Probate record Eliza Pipkin

    Died 1931 in Tasmania, aged 70. Will registered in Tasmania in 1931.

    Libraries Tasmania, Tasmanian Names Index (CC BY 4.0)
  2. A page of the Livre d’or of the French war dead, Paris
    Example: roll of the war dead
    War record J. Pipkin

    Australian Army Service Corps. Listed among the dead in the War Office casualty list of 1918.

    National Library of Scotland, War Office Weekly Casualty Lists (public domain)
  3. A page of the Berlin civil register, 1880
    Example: civil register, 1880
    Death record Charles Pipkin

    Died 1924 in Hobart, Tasmania.

    Libraries Tasmania, Tasmanian Names Index (CC BY 4.0)

Showing 3 of 44 records for Pipkin in Australia.

Counts: Libraries Tasmania, Tasmanian Names Index (CC BY 4.0) · Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0) · National Library of Scotland, War Office Weekly Casualty Lists (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Petition to the probate court, St. Louis, 1848, Missouri Historical Society (public domain); Livre d’or of the war dead, Paris, Ministère des pensions, Archives nationales (CC0); Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0).

United Kingdom2 records

2 records of the Pipkin name in the United Kingdom War Office casualty lists, 1917–1919, among the dead
  1. A First World War roll of honour of the staff of C. & E. Morton Ltd
    Example: roll of honour, 1914–1919
    War record W. Pipkin

    York and Lancaster Regiment. Listed among the dead in the War Office casualty list of 1917.

    National Library of Scotland, War Office Weekly Casualty Lists (public domain)
  2. A First World War roll of honour of the staff of C. & E. Morton Ltd
    Example: roll of honour, 1914–1919
    War record W. C. Pipkin

    London Regiment. Listed among the dead in the War Office casualty list of 1918.

    National Library of Scotland, War Office Weekly Casualty Lists (public domain)

Counts: National Library of Scotland, War Office Weekly Casualty Lists (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: C. & E. Morton Ltd roll of honour, 1914–1919, photo by Adrian S Pye via Geograph (CC BY-SA 2.0).

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