Pippa
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pippa is a given name, most frequently recorded in Australia. It appears chiefly in English and Dutch, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A female given name, diminutive of Philippa.
- AUAustralia1 in 13K◐
- NLNetherlands1 in 27K
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 33K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.0K ●
- Sources
- 188 ●
- 1 in 27K ◐
across 6 countries
13K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Meaning & origin●
A female given name, diminutive of Philippa.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AU Australia | #950 | 9,029 | 3.3K rec. | — | 261 | Pippa | 104 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 6,313 | 4.4K rec. | — | 16 | Pippa | 152 |
| US United States | — | 1,269 | 3.7K rec. | 1 in 262K | 1.3K | Pippa | 188 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 630△ | 96 rec. | 1 in 27K | 630 | Pippa | 22 |
| BE Belgium | — | 605 | 16 rec. | — | 53 | Pippa | 11 |
| CA Canada | — | 410 | 171 rec. | — | 2 | Pippa | 42 |
| IE Ireland | #605 | 351 | 42 rec. | — | 82 | Pippa | 27 |
| DE Germany | — | 167 | 125 rec. | — | 1 | Pippa | 36 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | 156 | 98 rec. | — | 33 | Pippa | 40 |
| ES Spain | — | 155 | 155 rec. | — | — | Pippa | 19 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 102 | 84 rec. | — | — | Pippa | 32 |
| FI Finland | — | 41△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 136K | 60 | Pippa | 4 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English20K77%
- Dutch1.1K4%
- Western Frisian1.1K4%
- French8803%
- German4082%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 19,699 | 77% |
| Dutch | 1,143 | 4% |
| Western Frisian | 1,134 | 4% |
| French | 880 | 3% |
| German | 408 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Pippa is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weibl. Vom., italienische Koseform - eigentlich Lallform aus der Kindersprache - von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Swedish, to fuck (have sex (with))
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, wank, hand job
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Corsican, smoking pipe
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1957 | 5 |
| 1961 | 5 |
| 1962 | 9 |
| 1963 | 9 |
| 1964 | 9 |
| 1965 | 25 |
| 1966 | 19 |
| 1967 | 9 |
| 1968 | 9 |
| 1969 | 5 |
| 1971 | 5 |
| 1972 | 7 |
| 1974 | 7 |
| 1999 | 5 |
| 2003 | 10 |
| 2004 | 8 |
| 2005 | 10 |
| 2006 | 25 |
| 2007 | 14 |
| 2008 | 18 |
| 2009 | 21 |
| 2010 | 16 |
| 2011 | 70 |
| 2012 | 107 |
| 2013 | 80 |
| 2014 | 120 |
| 2015 | 94 |
| 2016 | 101 |
| 2017 | 114 |
| 2018 | 96 |
| 2019 | 108 |
| 2020 | 93 |
| 2021 | 115 |
| 2022 | 103 |
| 2023 | 71 |
| 2024 | 73 |
| 2025 | 107 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 37 years between 1957–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Pippa Scottb. 1934USAmerican actress (born 1935)
- Pippa Steelb. 1948GBBritish actress (1948-1992)
- Pippa Guardb. 1952GBBritish actress
- Pippa Norrisb. 1953GBBritish American political scientist
- Pippa Haywoodb. 1961GBBritish actress
- Pippa Harrisb. 1967GBBritish film and television producer/executive
- Pippa Funnellb. 1968GBBritish equestrian
- Pippa Grandisonb. 1970AUAustralian musical theatre performer
- Pippa Blackb. 1982AUAustralian actress
- Pippa Bennett-Warnerb. 1988GBBritish actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 52 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.3K | #10,465 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 630 | #1,757 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 503 | #3,198 |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2023 | 261 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 108 | #151,532 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 107 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 105 | #152,989 |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2025 | 97 | #75 |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 2025 | 97 | #75 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2018 | 82 | #77 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 76 | #77,671 |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 2025 | 68 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 319 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Pippa?
- We estimate roughly 2.0 thousand people bear Pippa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Pippa have the most bearers?
- Pippa is most frequently recorded in Australia, where it is most often spelled pippa.
- How common is Pippa compared with other names?
- In Australia, Pippa is the 950th most common given name of 197,734 given names recorded there.
- Is Pippa a male or female name?
- Pippa is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Pippa mean?
- Recorded meaning: A female given name, diminutive of Philippa.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Pippa” — the 950th most common given name in Australia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.