as a First Name
Contracted pet form of Philippa, now also used as an independent given name. It was popularized in the 19th century by Browning's narrative poem Pippa Passes (1841), in which the heroine is a child worker in an Italian silk mill, whose innocent admiration of ‘great’ people is ironically juxtaposed with their sordid lives. The name is presumably supposed to be Italian, but is not in fact used in Italy.
| 14,085th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 225
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Vermont
- has the most people named Pippa per capita
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- marked the height of its popularity
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