The Sipe surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 5,974 people carried this name — #5,791 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 49,300 people counted. That is down 1% from 6,034 in 2000.

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In Argentina’s national register

At least 87 people named Sipe 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 Buenos Aires Province.

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

Where they live today

Buenos Aires Province 39
City of Buenos Aires 37
Tierra del Fuego 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

24 families named Sipe, or a close spelling, were counted in 1790.

Each family is counted by its head. About 152 people lived in those households, 6.3 to a family on average. The table counts it together with 8 other spellings. 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

Pennsylvania 19
North Carolina 3
Maryland 2

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. 262 — public domain · names carried by at least 100 white persons in 1790.

In print

Sipe in American newspapers,
1916–1919.

Newspaper page from Great Falls Daily Tribune carrying the name Sipe
Great Falls Daily Tribune 1919-03-02
Newspaper page from The Wheatland World carrying the name Sipe
The Wheatland World 1916-10-20
Newspaper page from The Ogden Standard carrying the name Sipe
The Ogden Standard 1916-05-28

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain.

In print

Sipe in Australian newspapers,
1860s–1930s.

54 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Sipe. The most, 11, date from the 1900s.

Articles, by state

Victoria 13
South Australia 11
New South Wales 10
Queensland 9
Tasmania 4
Western Australia 4
ACT (Canberra) 2

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

Who carried it

People named Sipe,
with a public archive behind them.

  • William Allen Sipe
    William Allen Sipe 1844–1935 · lawyer
  • Richard Sipe 1932–2018 · writer
  • Lawrence R. Sipe 1949–2011 · university teacher

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 6 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Sipe,
in the records of 4 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 States376 records

376 records of the Sipe name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 270
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 59
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 28
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 9
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 7
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 2
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Solomon A. Sipe

    Born 1918 in Wyoming. Enlisted 1942 at Missoula, Montana; farm hand from Carter County, Montana. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1989, buried at Black Hills National Cemetery, South Dakota.

    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 Robert Ernest Sipe

    Born 1941; from Dover, New Jersey. U.S. Army, medical specialist; killed in action 1967 in Vinh Binh, South Vietnam.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. A U.S. Army record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864
    Example: U.S. burial record, 1864
    Burial record George W. Sipe

    U.S. Army veteran of the Spanish–American War. Born 1874, died 1949; buried at Beverly National Cemetery, New Jersey.

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)

Showing 3 of 376 records for Sipe 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) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted). 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); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain).

Netherlands2 records

2 records of the Sipe name in the Netherlands
  • Dutch civil registers (births, marriages, deaths) 1
  • Dutch church registers before 1811 1
  1. A page of the Berlin civil register, 1880
    Example: civil register, 1880
    Birth record Elisabeth Sipe

    Born 1839 in Arnhem.

    Open Archives, Gelders Archief (CC BY 4.0)
  2. A page of the Berlin civil register, 1880
    Example: civil register, 1880
    Civil record Abigael Sipe

    Baptised in 1601 in Biggekerke.

    Open Archives, Zeeuws Archief (CC BY 4.0)

Counts: Open Archives (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0).

Canada1 record

1 record of the Sipe name in Canada Canadian Virtual War Memorial
  1. A Canadian First World War grave register card for a soldier who died of wounds in 1917
    Example: Canadian war grave register, 1917
    War record Bertram Stanford Sipe

    Died in service in 1917.

    Veterans Affairs Canada. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada.

Counts: Veterans Affairs Canada. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Canadian First World War circumstances-of-death register (scan by Scottgraham87 via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0).

France1 record

1 record of the Sipe name in France France's national death register, 1970–2001
  1. A page of the death register of Nice, 1930
    Example: French death register, 1930
    Death record Jeanne Suzanne Sipe

    Born 1896 in Ailly-sur-Somme; died 1974 in Dury (Somme).

    Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte)

Counts: Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Death register of Nice, 1930, Archives départementales des Alpes-Maritimes (public domain).

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Surnames next to Sipe.

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