Meaning and history
From a nickname, probably derived from the English word kipper, meaning “male salmon.”
20062006: 30 births, rank #3,451
2007: 23 births, rank #4,243
2008: 24 births, rank #4,145
2009: 22 births, rank #4,429
2010: 21 births, rank #4,517
20112011: 21 births, rank #4,509
2012: 35 births, rank #3,179
2013: 33 births, rank #3,265
2014: 50 births, rank #2,492
2015: 46 births, rank #2,641
20162016: 74 births, rank #1,959
2017: 74 births, rank #1,935
2018: 76 births, rank #1,937
2019: 97 births, rank #1,658
2020: 84 births, rank #1,788
20212021: 101 births, rank #1,645
2022: 125 births, rank #1,447
2023: 135 births, rank #1,380
2024: 124 births, rank #1,459
20252025: 104 births, rank #1,621
Kip rose from #902 to #864 for boys between 1982 and 1984. Its highest annual birth count came in 1965, with 419 births.