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Pippin

UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Pippin has been given to 115 babies in the U.S. since 2009. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2018, with 9 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 53% girls, 47% boys all-time.

Babies named Pippin, 2024

1 in 418,000

Pippin over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Pippin over time

In 2025, Pippin went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

20092025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Pippin: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Pippin means

Pippin has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Pippin

A separate documented entry treats Pippin as a form of Pepin. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

Origin, language, and formation

Pippin is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 61 girls were recorded with the name Pippin between 2009 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2018; its best national rank was #11,220 in 2018.

In the United States, 54 boys were recorded with the name Pippin between 2016 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2022; its best national rank was #8,813 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,320 in 2020 to #13,405 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Pippin?

Pippin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 418,000
8 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 203,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pippin sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pippin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pippins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pippin was born before 2017 — so the typical Pippin is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
57.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
61
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 57.4% of all recorded uses (35).

Is Pippin rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2018 (9)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#11,220
2018

Spellings of Pippin

Pippin is not the most common spelling — Pippa is, with 96.5% against Pippin's 3.5%.

  • Pippa96.5%1,702
  • Pippin3.5%61

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Pippin around the world

Where Pippin ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2021–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1947–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Pippin by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,220
2018
Peak year
2018
9 that year
First recorded
2009
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
61
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,405
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,085
Best rank ever
#8,813
2022
Peak year
2022
9 that year
First recorded
2016
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
54
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Pippin

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Pippin

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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