Rip

Where Rip comes from

The dictionaries list Rip as a given name — a male given name from Dutch — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Dutch
Along the way
  1. 1938
    First appearance
    #3,534 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2021
    Peak, #1,565
    111 babies named Rip — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Dutch.
  • A diminutive of the male given name Ripley.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Rip hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.