Ripp is a modern American name built on the old nickname Rip, familiar from Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle; it works as a short, rugged word name, and the doubled p gives it the look of a surname, so its sense is best described as "tough nickname". Its timing points to the ranch hand Rip Wheeler in the television series Yellowstone. Ripp first appeared in the US data in 2019 at number 4087, shot to number 1485 in 2020 and peaked at number 1391 in 2022; in 2025 it ranked number 2595 with 51 boys.