Given name & surname
Tipper
“one who pours water; a well”
Tipper is used as a given name and a surname. One Irish interpretation is “one who pours water; a well.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Irish interpretation is “one who pours water; a well.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Irish.
How it developed
Probably from Middle English tippe (“head, tip”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2017. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tipper through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 0 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 2017
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 438 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.
Tipper’s family of names
Tipper has a related form in Tip. Tipper has a related form in Tippar. Tipper has a related form in Tippor.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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