Pippa (given name)

For other uses, see Pippa.
Pippa
Pippa Passes, an 1854 illustration by Elizabeth Siddal for Robert Browning's Pippa Passes.
PronunciationPIP-a
GenderFeminine
Origin
Word/nameGreek
Meaninglover of horses
Region of originEnglish
Other names
Variant form(s)Pip, Pipa
Related namesBridget, Philip, Philippa, Philippe, Philippine, Pirkko
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.

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 by English poet 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]

  1. ^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). Oxford Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press. p. 221. ISBN 0-19-861060-2.