# Hippolyte (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/hippolyte/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | not in the US data |
| Boys / girls in the US | not in the US data |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## People named Hippolyte

- Hippolyte Taine, French literary critic and historian (1828-1893)
- Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (1819–1896)
- Hippolyte Girardot, French actor, film director and screenwriter
- Hippolyte Flandrin, French painter (1809-1864)
- Hippolyte Bayard, French photographer (1801–1887)
- Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès, French chemist (1817-1880)
- Hippolyte Aucouturier, French cyclist (1876–1944)
- Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (1801-1888)
- Hippolyte Delehaye, Belgian Jesuit and hagiography scholar (1859–1941)
- Hippolyte François Jaubert, French botanist and politician (1798-1874)
- Joseph-Hippolyte Guibert, Catholic cardinal (1802-1886)
- Hippolyte Van den Bosch, Belgian footballer (1926–2011)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.