The Schipper Last Name

A coat of arms was granted to a particular family line, not to everyone named Schipper, so a shared surname is a clue rather than a claim to the arms.

In the records

If you carry the Schipper surname, the numbers below show how often it is found. In Wikidata, Schipper is listed as a German surname.

Standard surname dictionaries do not settle the origin of Schipper, so we research it family by family rather than guess. Schipper ranked 10,772 in the 2010 US Census, with 2,961 people answering to the name. Between 1891 and 2000, 101 babies born in France were registered as Schipper, with the most births in 1991–2000.

Get the complete Schipper report, with a museum-style coat of arms.