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Pippa

About 1,702 American babies have been named Pippa since 1957, most of them around 2014. In 2025 it ranked 1,855th. About 1,700 Pippas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Pippa

By the numbers

Total US births
1,702
Estimated living today
1,700
Median age today
8
Peak year
2014
Best rank
1,736th
Rank in 2025
1,855th
First recorded
1957

How old the living Pippas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,702 babies given the name since 1957, about 1,700 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,500 of them are children and 4 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Pippas

People named Pippa with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Pippa is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Pippa is most concentrated in Utah (6.4×), Washington (2.9×), Minnesota (2.4×), Texas (1.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2014

The most popular girls’ names the year Pippa peaked:

All the names of 2014

Pippa elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Pippa 6,694 112th
Ireland girls Pippa 764 77th
Belgium girls Pippa 652 142nd
New Zealand girls Pippa 506 44th
Scotland girls Pippa 314 182nd
Northern Ireland girls Pippa 282 67th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Pippa: rank by region

In 2025, Pippa was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Pippa 104 52

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Pippa appears in the lists for Province of West Flanders (62nd), Province of East Flanders (86th), Province of Flemish Brabant (97th), Province of Limburg (138th) and Province of Antwerp (160th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Pippa by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin girls 2017–2023 16 339th

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Pippa among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Pippa 36 42

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Related names

Pippa against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.