Entry № 8176 · English origin

Pippa Pippa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ PIP-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Lover of horses"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English short form)

A name that means "lover of horses".

Pippa is the English diminutive of Philippa — itself the feminine of Philip, from the Greek philos (loving) and hippos (horse), meaning "lover of horses."

Lover of horses.

The name in its native script.

Pippa
Transliteration
Pippa
Pronunciation
/ ˈpɪp.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Pippa stands.

Pippa does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Pippas before her.

Real people
Pippa Middleton
British author, sister of Catherine Princess of Wales.
born 1983
In fiction
Pippi Longstocking
Heroine of Astrid Lindgren's books (related diminutive).
1945 onward

Names connected to Pippa.

The number behind Pippa.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Pippa reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.