Kip (name)
Kip is a male given name and a family name .
Name bearer
First name
- Kip Brennan (* 1980), Canadian ice hockey player
- Kip Carpenter (* 1979), American speed skater
- Kip Hanrahan (* 1954), American music producer and percussionist
- Kip Kinkel (* 1982), American gunman
- Kip Miller (born 1969), American ice hockey player
- Kip Niven (1945-2019), American actor
- Kip Pardue (born 1975), American actor
- Kip Thorne (* 1940), American physicist
family name
- Anna Maria van Erp Taalman Kip (1935–2016), Dutch Graecist
- Ismaël Kip (* 1987), Dutch track and road cyclist
Prefix of a family name
Kip- is the prefix of a family name, especially in East Africa (Kenya), e.g. B. in the names Kiprono , Kipchumba , Kiprotich , Kipkemboi etc. Kip- means here "son of", similar to the appended Scandinavian -son or -sen, for example in Gustavsson , Svensson or Carlssen , Magnussen ; see. also the Ibn / Ben in the Semitic language area.