Phillippa? Do you like it? Is it going to be HUGELY popular?

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What do we think? I love it for dc2 but think it may expolde in popularity due to middleton.

I like it but think its going to become very popular.

I like Pippa but not Phillippa (generally not keen on girls' names that look like feminised versions of boys' names)

And yup, I do think it's going to be popular.

Isn't it normally spelled with either one L and two P's, or two L's and one P?

In fact, that's the main problem with that name - spelling it

I think Philippa is the conventional spelling anyway, with a few people opting for Phillipa. Not sure I've ever seen it spelled Phillippa.

Why would anyone want to name a child after that smug orange woman?

I have never met a Philippa I liked.

Awful name

I agree it's awful, a clunky-sounding attempt to feminise a man's name.

No I don't like it, and no it is not going to be hugely popular.

I dislike it. Philip for a boy is nice but I don't like Philip for a girl, sorry.

Why would it become popular ?

sorry, meant Phillipa of course. But am still missing what should make it become popular...

And Pippa is too close to Pippi (wee in many languages ).

There was a Phillipa at my primary school....she was born without one arm and had a false one. She was a tantrum chucker and really unpleasant. She twice (that I saw) took that false arm off and hit other children with it. Hard.
That's what the name brings up for me.

Im sorry I dont like it very much either, Pippa is OK, but only OK.

'Pippa' is horribly twee.

I like it, not enough to use it but it's ok. But you're going to get a load of twits coming on to labour the point that Pippa is Vietnamese or Serbo-Croat for wankstain or something.

"But you're going to get a load of twits coming on to labour the point that Pippa is Vietnamese or Serbo-Croat for wankstain or something."

Imo that is one of the benefits of the (global) internet. That you CAN find out what names might mean in other languages, especially in an ever globalising economy.

Still don't see why people would name their child after the sister of a future queen. WHY ?

Pippa means blowjob in Greek.

I don't think people are naming kids after Pippa Middleton as such. Its just that they've heard the name in the press recently and thought its a nice name.

I've delivered 2 baby Pippas in the last couple of weeks. Never had one before that in 6 years of midwifery.

It always reminds me of the Mum in Home & Away but I'm horribly old

Not a fan of any names that are obviously feminised boys names.

There might be a few, but not a significant increase that wouldn't have happened cyclically anyway.

I went to school with three Philippa's. One was called Pip, another Pippa, and the third Philly.

I don't like it. I've also never met a nice one in real life. And as for Pippa Middleton - I honestly can't see what all the fuss is about! So she went on a starvation diet and dyed herself orange for her sister's wedding - so what?

But if you like the name OP, then go for it - it doesn't matter what other people thing. My DS has a very unusual name that all the grandparents hated when they first heard it - but we (Dh and I) love it and that's all that matters.

as the mother of a Kate, I can't comment....

I don't like the name Phillippa but love the name Pippa.

Its on my list if i ever have another girl but i do think it may get more popular because of Pippa Middleton.