Phipp spoke at the genealogy conference, noting that his surname had originated as a given name centuries earlier.

Phipps organized the family archive and explained how the surname had been passed down for generations.

Phippen is a surname that was passed down from a given name in our family.

Phippard was first documented in the parish registers of a small English village in the seventeenth century, a clear example of a given name transferring into a family surname.