Philippa nn Pippa

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Have just thrown this into mix I really like it ... however. ..

As a republican can I use it? Will she forever be assumed to be names after Middleton? If that's a constant association it will annoy me.

I wouldn't let Pippa Middleton influence you. She's not in the press nearly as much as she was just after the wedding. Media will focus on Kate and her children now she's had some.

I like the name.

I like it. But I think people will mention Pippa Middleton often. Depends how much it will annoy you.

Mmmm I'm not sure how much it would annoy me. But it will annoy me.

Dd1 has the same name as a friends character and I did get asked a lot of she was names after her but she's 10 now and it rarely comes up now. But then I do like friends so this didn't really bother me that much.

If people ask me if I've named my daughter after Pippa Middleton it might really annoy me.

I am really liking it as a name though. And I've really been struggling

My sister is called Philippa and has never been called Pippa or anything other than Philippa. I think it's a lovely name and when I was making name lists was annoyed my parents had beaten me to it!

I'm pretty sure if you introduced her as Philippa nobody would query who you named her after. You can then refer to her as Pippa thereafter.

It means cunt in Polish.

and penis in Greek.

I never think of Pippa Middleton, rather the rider Pippa ?Funnell

A Greek friend told me it actually means blowjob in Greek. I think it's something rude in Spanish as well. That's only Pippa. Not Phillippa.

The event rider Pippa Funnell had to become Phillippa Funnell for the Athens Olympics and I remember delving as to why as it struck me as odd.

Sorry- something rude, anyway!

Is it terrible that the royal connection annoys me more than the foreign rude words

Sad but true .

Well it's a front runner for me . DH needs convincing though

We named our DD Philippa and she is called Pippa on a day to day basis. She's now 18 months old and I've only had one person say "oh, like Pippa Middleton". I hadn't even thought of it until they said it! In Europe we introduce her as Philippa to get round the rude word problem. We love the name so I would say go for it!

My DDs friend is know as Pip.

Pippa just sounds a bit too much like Peppa (Pig) for my liking.

Is it terrible that the royal connection annoys me more than the foreign rude words

Yes.

I just couldn't give my child a name that was a sexual slang word in so many different countries.

I think Philippa's lovely. And if you want to use Pippa, I wouldn't let the foreign slang words put you off, although I guess it depends how much you travel to those countries!

Or how much her daughter may choose to travel in the future.

Or how often you work with people of other nationalities.

I was put off pippa (from Penelope) because my DH found that it means lots of rude things in different languages. I love it, but when I tested it with a few people they did mention P Middleton I'm afraid.

I know one who answers to Squeak, as in pipsqueak.

I know a Phillippa known as Pippa or Pippy by family

She's old enough that she was born before the middletons were in the press but I don't think she gets comments about it