Tippitt Surname Meaning & Coat of Arms

Tippitt is a branch of the Tippett name tree. Taken at its root, Tippitt points to “A descendant of little Tibb”.

Heraldry and the Tippitt name

Arms linked to Tippett and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Tippitt and Tippett

Only a small detail separates the spellings: Tippitt has “i” where Tippett has “e”. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Related forms: Tippetts and Tippet.

The 2010 US Census counted 405 people named Tippitt, ranking it number 51,396 among American surnames. That is enough to place it in the top 100,000 American surnames. Get the complete Tippitt report, with a museum-style coat of arms.