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Pippa .
Pippa is a feminine given name and a short form , usually of Philippa . It came into greater use as an independent name in the Anglosphere following the publication of the 1841 verse drama Pippa Passes Robert Browning with the well-known lines "God's in his heaven— / All's right with the world!" The character was an innocent Italian girl, though the name is not in common use as a given name in Italy .[1]
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Pippa Pronunciation PIP-a Gender Feminine Word/name Greek Meaning lover of horses Region of origin English Variant form(s) Pip, Pipa Related names Bridget , Philip , Philippa , Philippe , Philippine, Pirkko
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Pippa Middleton , center, with Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex following the 2011 wedding of William, Prince of Wales and Catherine, Princess of Wales .American actress Pippa Scott in 1960.
The name Philippa , or Philip in its vernacular form for both men and women, was used in the British royal family in medieval times. Philippa of Hainault was an early bearer. Pip and Pippa were traditional diminutives of the name. These early associations give the name a classic image with upperclass associations in the Anglosphere .[2] sexual connotations in other cultures. Pippa is a Swedish crude slang term for sexual intercourse and an Italian slang word for masturbation . A similar sounding word in Greek , πίπα, is a crude Greek slang term for fellatio .[3]
The name has ranked among the top 1,000 names for newborn girls in the United Kingdom since 1996 and among the top 200 since 2012, the year after the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton , at which Pippa Middleton served as her sister's maid of honor and was much photographed and her attractiveness was much commented upon.[4]
Philipa "Pippa" Ailion (born 1947), British theatrical and casting directorPippa Bartoletti , British politicianPhilippa "Pippa" Bennett-Warner (born 1988), British actressPippa Black (born 1982), Australian actressPippa Britton (born ca. 1962-63), British retired archer and paralympianPippa "Pips" Bunce , born Philip Bunce (born 1972), British banking executivePippa Catterall , born Peter Catterall (born 1961), British academic historianPippa Coom , New Zealand politicianPippa Crerar (born 1976), British journalistPippa Cross (born 1956), English film and television producerPippa Duncan , British Royal Navy officerPippa Evans (born 1982), British comedianPhilippa "Pippa" Funnell (born 1968), British equestriennePippa Garner , born Philip Garner (born 1942), American artist, illustrator, industrial designer, and writer known for making parody forms of consumer products and custom bicycles and automobilesPippa Goldschmidt , British fiction writerPippa Grandison (born 1970), Australian actress and singerPippa Grange , British applied psychologist, author, and consultantPippa Greenwood , British plant pathologistPhilippa "Pippa" Guard (born 1952), British actressPippa Hackett (born 1974), Irish politicianPippa Hale , British contemporary artistPhilippa "Pippa" Harris (born 1967), British film and television producerPippa Hayward (born 1990), New Zealand field hockey player and OlympianPhilippa "Pippa" Haywood (born 1961), English actressPhilippa "Pippa" Hinchley (born 1966), English actressPhyllis "Pippa" Latour (1921-2023), South African-born agent of the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) organisation in France during World War IIPippa Little , Scottish poet, reviewer, translator, and editorPhilippa "Pippa" Maddams (born1974), British former mountain and fell runnerPhilippa "Pippa" Malmgren (born 1962), American technology entrepreneur and economistPippa Mann (born 1983), British race car driverPhilippa "Pippa" Marrack (born 1945), English immunologist and academicPhilippa "Pippa" Middleton (born 1983), English socialite, sister of the Princess of Wales Pippa Mills , British senior police officerPippa Moore , (born ca. 1973-74), English ballet dancerPippa Nixon (born 1980), English actressPippa Norris (born 1953), British-American political scientist specializing in comparative politicsPhilippa "Pippa" Pearce , British curator of the British MuseumPhilippa "Pippa" Rogerson , British solicitor and academicPhilippa "Pippa" Savage (born 1981), Australian rower and OlympianPhilippa "Pippa" Scott (born 1935), American actressPippa Small , Canadian-born British jeweller, anthropologist and humanitarianPhilippa "Pippa" Smyth (born 1995), Australian rules footballerPhillipa "Pippa" Soo (born 1990), American actress and singerPhilippa "Pippa" Strachey (1872-1968), British women's suffragistPippa Steel (1948–1992), British actressPhilippa "Pippa" Stroud, Baroness Stroud (born 1965), Peer in the British House of Lords and leader of conservative think tanksPippa Van Iersel (born 1999), Dutch kite surferPippa Wetzell (born 1977), New Zealand television personality and journalistPippa Wicks (born circa 1962-63), British businesswomanPippa Wilson (born 1986), English professional sailorPippa Winslow , American-born British actress, singer, and voice artistPhilippa "Pippa" York , born Robert Millar (born 1958), Scottish journalist and former professional road racing cyclist
Poppy Bermúdez , born José Armando Bermúdez Pippa (1928-2014), Argentine-born Dominican businessmanRosalba Pippa (born 1982), Italian musical performer
Pippa, a character in the 1841 verse drama Pippa Passes Robert Browning
Pippa, the title character of the 1906 play Und Pippa tanzt! by German dramatist Gerhart Hauptmann
Pippa, a character in the 2019 film The Goldfinch
Pippa the Plane, a character in the British animated television series Budgie the Little Helicopter
Pippa, a character in the 2021 American erotic thriller film The Voyeurs
Philippa "Pippa" Ewell, a character in the 1981 historical romance novel Judas Kiss by Eleanor Alice Burford , writing under the pen name Victoria Holt
Pippa "Pip" Fitz-Amobi, a character in the novel A Good Girl's Guide to Murder Holly Jackson and the TV series based upon the books
Pippa Funnell, a character in the horse-themed video gaming series Alexandra Ledermann / Pippa Funnell
Pippa Hatcher in the 1999 American horror television miniseries Storm of the Century
Pippa Lee, a character in the 2009 film The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Pippa McKenna , a character on the American NBC television sitcom The Facts of Life Pippa Ridley, a character in the 2004 film Haven
Pippa Ross , a character in the Australian soap opera Home and Away Pippa Saunders , a character in the Australian soap opera Home and Away
648 Pippa , a minor planet orbiting the SunPippa (doll) , a fashion doll manufactured by British toymaker Palitoy between 1972 and 1980Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo, known as Pippa Bacca (1974-2008), Italian performance and feminist artist and murder victim
Philippa Pippo
Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). Oxford Dictionary of First Names . Oxford University Press. p. 221. ISBN 0-19-861060-2
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