Kip as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Kip

What is the meaning of the name Kip ?

The baby name Kip is a Male name , 1 syllables long and is pronounced KIP (IPA: /kɪp/).

Kip is English in Origin.

Kip is a brisk English given name most often arising as a nickname-turned-standalone from surnames. It can shorten Kipling, an English place-derived surname from the Old English personal name Cyppel plus -ingas, “the people/descendants of Cyppel,” or Kipp, a Germanic and English topographic surname for someone living by an edge or sharp hill (from Middle High German kippe, “brink”). Less commonly, it subs in for longer forenames such as Christopher or Kirkpatrick. Consequently, meanings cluster around “from the people of Cyppel” or “dweller at the hill’s edge.”

In the United States, Kip entered steady use in the early 20th century and spiked in the 1960s–70s, acquiring a sporty, preppy vibe; visibility came via Olympic runner Kip Keino (whose “Kip” is an unrelated Kalenjin prefix meaning “born of/at”) and physicist Kip Thorne. Variants and related forms include Kipp, Kippy, Kipling, and Kipton; the Dutch surname Kip is etymologically separate.