Entry № 11516 · English origin

Whoopi Whoopi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ WOO-pee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Joyful exclamation (Whoopi Goldberg, EGOT)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "joyful exclamation (whoopi goldberg, egot)".

Whoopi is the stage name chosen at age 18 by Caryn Elaine Johnson (born 1955) — partly from a whoopee cushion ("I made noises like one") and partly from the Yiddish-influenced exclamation "whoopi" that was Black show-business slang.

Joyful exclamation (Whoopi Goldberg, EGOT) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Whoopi
Transliteration
Whoopi
Pronunciation
/ ˈwʊp.i /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Whoopi stands.

Whoopi does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Whoopis before her.

Real people
Whoopi Goldberg
American EGOT actress and host.
born 1955
In fiction
Whoopi
The Color Purple (Celie).
1985

Names connected to Whoopi.

The number behind Whoopi.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Whoopi reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.