Lipa
Masculine · “dear man”
Lipa is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 1,253 boys against 5 girls since 1880.
Lipa is a Yiddish form of Eliphaz or Lipman — dear man — and it is a standard name in Hasidic communities.
How old is the name Lipa?
Lipa first appears in US birth records in 1958 — 67 years ago. The typical Lipa is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,200 people named Lipa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lipa most popular?
Lipa peaked in 2024, reaching #2156 nationally. Today it ranks #2363, 207 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
From lieb to Lipa
The story of Lipa
Yiddish built names on lieb, 'dear' — Lipman, Liebman, Leibush — and Lipa is the affectionate form. It is current in Hasidic communities in New York and Israel, often paired with a Hebrew name. It appears in American records in current use.
Meaningscholars disagree
dear man; lover
Generally from the Yiddish Lipman or Liebman, 'dear man', from lieb, 'dear' or 'beloved'. An alternative derives it from the Hebrew Eliphaz. The lieb route is the commoner account. The Yiddish element is documented.
How the name formed
- lieb
- Lipman
- Lipa
Related forms: ליפא · Lipman
Pronouncing Lipa
LEE-pah
Two syllables, stress on the first. Yiddish says it the same way.
Nicknames for Lipa
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
- 1958
- Most boys named
- 202468 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2156reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −14.7%58 in 2025, from 68
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.
Lipa in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- ליפא in Yiddish — transliteration
- Lipman in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, New Jersey.
Lipas among us
people named Lipa are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 29,450 born in 2025 was named Lipa
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Amaan test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Lipa's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Amaan climbed just as high around 2002, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Amaan's path sketches the road Lipa is walking now.
Lipa 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 Lipa is headed
Lipa looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 17% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium 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.
Lipa beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Lipa in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The dear-man meaning is warm and transparent.
- Lipman is available as a fuller form.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- It reads as specifically Hasidic.
- The origin is split between two routes.
- Lipa is also a Slavic word for a lime tree, unrelated.
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Masculine · #2363 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Lipas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Lipa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Lipa in 2025?
- Lipa ranks #2363 among US boy names in 2025, with 58 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Lipa?
- About 1 in every 29,450 US boys born in 2025 was named Lipa — 58 in all.
- Will my child share the name Lipa with classmates?
- Lipa will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Lipa
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