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How popular is the name Pippa?
Births per year, rank history and how many Pippas are alive today.
Pippa (female) sits just outside the top 100 girls' names in England and Wales, ranked 141st in 2025 with 348 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2018, when 470 babies were given the name, the 112th most popular that year. Numbers have been stable in recent years. At least 6,600 babies have been named Pippa in England and Wales since 1996.
The Pippa you are most likely to meet is around 9 years old. Half of all Pippas born in England and Wales are between 5 and 14, and there are at least 6,900 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 2.2% chance that at least one of them will be called Pippa.
How many babies are named Pippa each year?
Where does Pippa rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Pippa most popular?
Pippa peaked in 2018, when 470 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Pippa?
At least 6,900 people named Pippa born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Pippa?
Most living Pippas are between 5 and 14; the most common age is about 9.
Is Pippa becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.