Given name & surname
Pippin
“one who is shy”
Pippin is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “one who is shy.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “one who is shy.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2009. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Pippin through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 115
- 54 boys · 61 girls
- Most popular year
- 2022
- 17 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,409 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +4%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,409 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 151 as a first name in 2020; 6,800 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Pippin’s family of names
Pippin has a related form in Pepin. Pippin has a related form in Pippen. Pippin has a related form in Pippyn.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Pippin
- Pepin of HerstalMayor of the Palace (635-714)645–714
- Pepin I of Aquitaine9th-century Frankish king797–838
- Pepin the HunchbackFrankish prince, son of Charlemagne770–811
- Pepin II of AquitaineFrankish king823
- Pepin I of Vermandois9th-century Count of Vermandois815–900
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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