Pip

English, diminutive of Philip
"lover of horses"

Pip Origin and Meaning

The name Pip is a boy's name of English origin meaning "lover of horses".

The original Pip was the main character in Great Expectations (full name Philip Pirrip). Cute for a tike, maybe too cute for an adult.

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Famous People Named Pip

  • Pip
    stage name of Phillip Andrew Arnold, American pop singer
  • Philip "Pip" Baker
    English TV writer
  • Pip Carter
    English actor
  • Philip Ambrose "Pip" Elson
    English golfer
  • Philip "Pip" Proud
    Australian singer
  • Phillip "Pip" Pyle
    English rock drummer
  • Thomas "Pip" Rippon
    English footballer
  • Philip Malcolm "Pip" Williams
    English music producer
  • Pip Claflin (b. 2015)
    son of actors Laura Haddock and Sam Claflin
  • Eugene Pip Fox (b. 2012)
    son of actors Billie Piper and Laurence Fox

The name Pip in Pop Culture

  • Philip "Pip" Pirrip
    main character in Dickens' "Great Expectations"
  • Philip "Pip" Pirrin
    character on TV's South Park named after Dickens' Pip
  • Pip
    cabin,boy in "Moby,Dick" by Herman Melville
  • Pip
    character from movie "Airheads"
  • Pip and Dot
    fictional character in the 2017 video game "Cuphead"
  • Gladys Knight & the Pips
    vocal group

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