Meaning and history
Agrippa was a Roman cognomen of unknown meaning, possibly derived from Greek ἄγριος (agrios), meaning “wild,” and ἵππος (hippos), meaning “horse,” or alternatively from Etruscan. It was also used as a praenomen, or given name, by the Furia and Menenia families. In the New Testament, the name was borne by Herod Agrippa, a grandson of Herod the Great and king of Israel who had the apostle James put to death, and by the 1st-century BC Roman general Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa.