Kipp
Masculine
Kipp is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 2,484 boys against 5 girls since 1880.
Kipp is an English surname from a medieval nickname, and the likeliest root is a word for a pointed hill or for something bulging.
How old is the name Kipp?
Kipp first appears in US birth records in 1944 — 81 years ago. The typical Kipp alive today was born around 1977, making them about 48 years old. About 2,200 people named Kipp are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kipp most popular?
Kipp peaked in 1964, reaching #823 nationally. Today it ranks #2167, 1,344 places below that high. See the whole 1964 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Kipp
Our story of Kipp is a story of a short surname with a lost reason. Medieval English bynames were often descriptive — of a body, a habit or a piece of land — and Kipp's has not survived; the guesses point at a bulge, a hill, or a clipped Christopher. American families took the surname as a given name in the twentieth century, and the doubled p is a written variation. The name is genuinely old and its meaning genuinely lost, which is a common enough pair.
Meaningscholars disagree
Not established
The surname's origin is not settled. Proposals include the Middle English kippe, a bundle or bulge; a nickname from a pointed hill; and a short form of Christopher through Kester. None is established. The double p is a spelling variation.
Pronouncing Kipp
KIP
One syllable. Kipp and Kip are homophones; only the spelling differs.
Nicknames for Kipp
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1944
- Most boys named
- 196484 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #823reached in 1964
- Change vs 2023
- +29.4%66 in 2025, from 51
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Kipp in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Kip in English — spelling variant
- Kip in Dutch — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Indiana, Missouri.
Kipps among us
people named Kipp are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 25,880 born in 2025 was named Kipp
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kipp
- #2167
- Kipp on the 2025 chart
- #758
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kipp went to 66 boys in 2025, but Kip is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 170, which makes it the 758th most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,409 places above the chart.
- Kip104
- Kipp66
About 1 boy in 10,048 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 25,880 for Kipp itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Pascal test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kipp's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Pascal climbed just as high around 1910, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Pascal's path sketches the road Kipp is walking now.
Kipp sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Kipp is headed
Kipp looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 52% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Kipp beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kipp in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- One syllable, sharp, and never mispronounced.
- It is genuinely compact against a long surname.
- The Christopher route gives a formal version where a family wants one.
- The meaning is genuinely lost.
- Kip is the commoner spelling.
- It reads as a nickname rather than a full name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kipps are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,200 people named Kipp are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kipp?
- Kipp is one of 2 recorded spellings. Kip is the more common one — 104 births in 2025 against 66 for Kipp.
- How popular is the name Kipp in 2025?
- Kipp ranks #2167 among US boy names in 2025, with 66 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kipp?
- About 1 in every 25,880 US boys born in 2025 was named Kipp — 66 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kipp with classmates?
- Kipp will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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