Pippin ? Pip ?

[joanne34]

For a boy ? I love Pip ? but the long version of that is Phillip, and thats just not us.... What do you think ?

Cece, why isnt she in school ?

I just keep picturing Prince Phillip in my head... its not a pretty sight !

Plus if you read My Original post, I said
' I love Pip '

Back to the drawing board me thinks....

INSET Day!

I'm known as Pip,short for the female form of Philip,my mum used to call me Pippin when I was little

Pip's what I have been calling my unborn DS1 (ETA 7 weeks) since we found out he was a boy... I fully anticipate continuing to use it as a term of endearment once he's here, but didn't think it really worked as a real name - that's just me though!

Like it.

Like both, actually.

Philip make me think of Prince Philip. Not good.

I call ds - who has a name in no way related to it - Pip/Pippin all the time. I think it might be a LOTR thing, or perhaps that dog.

I call DS1, Pickle and Nooney.... dont know why.... we used to call him ' The Noons '

Ok so reasons against it are because it's the dogs name on a cbeebies program that almost certainly won't be on telly by the time the child is old enough to understand it and because of a hobit who is actually called peregrine?

I'm fine to the link with hobits.

The talk of him not being able to play rugby or get girls is very funny consider the person who gave me the idea for this name has just had a child and he used to be in his schools rugby team.

I love that 'no grown man' would choose it either, considering that not only do I like it but the afformentioned pip (also in his early 30s) isn't christened pip, it's his surname, bit he chooses pippin as he prefers it.

By the way rugby is fine (as jo mentioned I played prop for the school team, as well as lineman in American football, guard in basketball and left back in football... Despite being given what I think in the late 70s what would have been considered a bit of an effeminate name) until about 15. After 15 there's more punching and stamping than I think should be in any civilised sport. But maybe that was the league my school was in...

"bit he chooses pippin as he prefers it."

Notice the key fact here? HE chose it!

"Ok so reasons against it are because it's the dogs name on a cbeebies program that almost certainly won't be on telly by the time the child is old enough to understand it

DS is 14 and can still remember watching "Come Outside" with Pippin when he was little, knowing the BBC they will be repeating it forever

Like Pip but as a nickname rather than the formal name.

Ahhhhh no wonder why it's so bitchey here today.... full moon tomorrow..

Hoooowwwwwlllll ;)

Come Outside has been on the box years! and probably will be for years to come.

I think Pip is nice as a nickname, and if you don't like Philip how about Peregrine as someone mentioned earlier? Pippin in LOTR was short for Peregrine which I think is quite nice and also unusualish. I don't think that many people would notice the hobbit aspect if you shortened Peregrine to Pip!

i like pip. my friend's baby boy is called piper and is pip for short (was pip when in utero too). It's a beautiful name. flower fairyish and magical.
as for all the is it masculine enough issue - big daddy was shirley crabtree innit?

I thought Piper is a girl's name?

You don't like Phillip shortened to Pip

Could you live with Phil shortened to Pip

Piper isn't a boy?s or a girl's name - it's a surname or an occupation.

And flower fairyish and magical is a frankly daft criterion for choosing a name for a teenage boy!!

Or a teenage girl, for that matter.

I think Pip is a nice nickname, and even Pippin could be a cute nickname around the house (actually I have met more than one small child who is referred to affectionately as Pippin even when their real name is completely different. Also several rabbit Pippins.). Pippin as a full name is a big NO in my book. I think even just Pip is preferable as a full name to Pippin. I can't imagine when it would ever be more appropriate to use Pippin over Pip - "Pippin Smith-Bloggs" on a CV? "I take thee Pippin" at his wedding?

As for Philip... it's not a special favourite of mine, but I think it's the kind that could grow on you, especially since as a classic name it has so much history, so many bearers and connotations, there must be something to like. I have actually met a Pip and I assume he's really a Philip since his brothers also have old-fashioned nicknames which I know are short for full classic names, but it's not as if he uses his full name on a regualar basis. He is just known as Pip and has something serious to fall back on when he wants to. You don't have to even think of him as Philip - just give him the gift of flexibility.

My DB is a Philip and chooses to go by Pip most of the time (FWIW, he's a huge rugby playing type as well) but I don't think Pip or Pippin work as proper names, sorry. Philip shortened, or Peregrine, could work. There might be other names out there that could be shortened to Pip too, have you had a look through a book and checked for other possibilities for a 'full' name?

Piper is a girl's name (like the actress Piper Laurie).

I like Pip as a nickname and often call DS1 Pippin (his name is nothing like it) but I would also go for Philip as a proper name,

My DS is known by a shortened name but I think it's important to have a proper name to read out when they get married .

But my final judgement .........
if you call his name in a park, how many legs will people expect to come running.

I rest my case.

Pip to me is

fruitstick

'How many legs will people expect to come running?'

1ust because there is an actress called Piper doesn't mean that it's a girl's name. It has no history or tradition as a first name, so you might as well say that it's a boy's name, like jerseyshore's friend's ds!