Shipp Name Study

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This profile is part of the Shipp Name Study.

Welcome to the Shipp One Name Study

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Goals of the Shipp Name Study

• To connect all individual profiles sharing the surname Shipp, and its variations.

• To connect all of the genealogists researching Shipp families for more effective collaboration and support for their work.

• To merge identical person records and maintain a clean, reliable source of Shipp family history.

• Add the Shipp ONS tag and Location categories to all profiles with the Shipp surname.

• To share the fun of discovering our ancestors and telling their stories.

The Shipp Name

Shipp is an occupational surname, originating from the Old English word scip (ship), and referring to a mariner, or a ship or boat builder.^[1]

The surname Shipp is the 28,130th most widespread family name throughout the world. It is borne by around 1 in 381,307 people.

The last name is most widely held in The United States, where it is borne by 15,274 people, or 1 in 23,730. In The United States Shipp is most prevalent in: California, where 7 percent are found, Missouri, where 6 percent are found and Georgia, where 5 percent are found. Other than The United States Shipp occurs in 43 countries. It also occurs in England, where 12 percent are found and Australia, where 5 percent are found.^[2]

Shipp Brickwalls

Notable Shipps

Shipp Resources

Sources

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipp#
2. ↑ https://forebears.io/surnames/shipp#demographics