Hi Bex,
I didn’t even think of Home and Away but I remember the character. The actor was Kate Ritchie? Or was that another actor? Sorry for the tangent! From what I’ve heard the character was supposedly much loved among the viewers of the show so no negative connotations there. That being said I never watched the show, is it still running?
I just checked BDM in Victoria here Piper is 96 in the top 100 for 2010 so more popular than I realised.
If it’s already in the top 100 would you think the exposure would make it more popular or less?
Hey Flickitty!
She was [name]Kate[/name] [name]Ritchie[/name]'s foster mum on Home and Away, and you’re right, no negative connotations, so I wouldn’t worry about that.
I think that [name]Pippa[/name] might become more popular with [name]Pippa[/name] Middleton, but I think it will be [name]Pippa[/name] as a stand alone name, not [name]Phillipa[/name], for some reason I just can’t see the Australian public embracing [name]Phillipa[/name] as a name (though of course I’m no expert! [name]May[/name] be one for [name]Pam[/name] and [name]Linda[/name] to investigate!). So [name]Pippa[/name] in it’s own right I think might become more popular with the exposure, espeically given that, in NSW for example, [name]Evie[/name], [name]Ellie[/name], [name]Abby[/name] and [name]Abbey[/name], [name]Charli[/name] (yes, this spelling), are all in the top 100, and they are names that I would consider to be contractions or nicknames for fuller names (names like [name]Lucy[/name], [name]Bella[/name], [name]Ella[/name] and [name]Molly[/name] are also there, but I feel that they are more established as names in their own right, even though they are also contractions/nicknames). I’ve just looked at the [name]VIC[/name] BDM, and they also have [name]Ella[/name], [name]Lucy[/name], [name]Evie[/name], [name]Bella[/name], [name]Abby[/name], [name]Abbey[/name], [name]Charli[/name] (!), and [name]Ellie[/name] in the top 100 for last year (btw, the [name]VIC[/name] BDM site is way better for name data than the NSW one, I am so impressed! It goes all the way back to 1929, and you can search by decade; NSW goes back to 1995, and you can only search by year
I’m jealous!!). But yeah, based on that, I think that [name]Pippa[/name] itself might get a boost from Ms Middleton, but [name]Phillipa[/name], no. I think [name]Piper[/name] might be on the way down, it’s already just within the top 100, and I think people may see [name]Pippa[/name] as a fresher, less popular (but maybe not for long) alternative to [name]Piper[/name].
[name]Hope[/name] that this helped!