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Show ContentsKuiper History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Kuiper Ranking

In the United States, the name Kuiper is the 17,273rd most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 1 However, in Netherlands, the name Kuiper is ranked the 54th most popular surname with an estimated 14,842 people with that name. 2

United States Kuiper migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Kuiper Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • Fytje Kuiper, aged 28, who landed in America in 1850 3
  • Pietertje Kuiper, aged 30, who arrived in America in 1850 3

Contemporary Notables of the name Kuiper (post 1700) +

  • Henry Kuiper (b. 1941), American Republican politician, Delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 2004 4
  • Gerard Peter Kuiper (1905-1973), Dutch astronomer, eponym of "Kuiper belt"
  • Nicolaas Hendrick Kuiper (1920-1994), Dutch mathematician, eponym of "Kuiper's theorem"
  • Hennie Kuiper (b. 1949), Dutch Olympic cyclist
  • Franciscus Bernardus Jacobus Kuiper (1907-2003), Dutch Indologist
  • Duane Eugene Kuiper (b. 1950), former second baseman in Major League Baseball
  1. "What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
  2. "Most Common Last Names in Netherlands." Forebears, https://forebears.io/netherlands/surnames
  3. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
  4. The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, October 6) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html
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