Pippin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A seed
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pʰɪpɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pippin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 45K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 76K
- MQMartinique≈1 in 9.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 345 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈21,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Martinique, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A seed.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pippin counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Pippin | 5 |
| US United States | 7,326 | 1 in 45K | 7.3K | Pippin | 345 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 76K | 146 | Pippin | 65 |
| IT Italy | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Pippin | 3 |
| CA Canada | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Pippin | 29 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Pippin | 4 |
| IE Ireland | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Pippin | 5 |
| SG Singapore | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Pippin | 4 |
| MQ Martinique | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | 5 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Pippin is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, definite singular of pippi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Horace Pippinb. 1888USAfrican American artist (1888-1946)
- Dan Pippinb. 1926USAmerican basketball player
- Donald Pippinb. 1926USAmerican conductor, composer, and musical theatre director
- Steven Pippinb. 1960GBBritish artist (born 1960)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.3K | #4,818 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 7K | #4,618 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.8K | #5,002 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 146 | #26,072 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pippin mean, and where does it come from?
- A seed. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pippin?
- A machine transcription gives /pʰɪpɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pippin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Pippin in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pippin.
- How common is the name Pippin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,326 people named Pippin in 2010, about 1 in 45 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pippinThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Pippin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.