Heraldry and the Culp Surname

Culp is a last name with a clear footprint in official records. The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Culp with 13,081 bearers, at rank 2,756. It sits within the 5,000 most common last names in the country.

Family crest and blazon

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

Surname origin

Start with the most recent records and work back one generation at a time. The meaning of Culp is not given in the reference works we use for these short pages; a full report traces it from your own family's records.

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