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Name meaning & stats

Filipe

Filipe means “fond of horses” (Ancient Greek origin). 429 US babies since 1940, peak 1992. Notable Filipes are 2.5× over-represented as footballers.

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What it means

“fond of horses”

Ancient GreekSpelling of Phillip

Phillip around the world

  • Филип · Russian
  • Філліп · Ukrainian
  • فيليب · Arabic
  • פיליפ · Hebrew
  • フィリップ · Japanese
  • 菲利普 · Chinese
  • Philipp · German
  • Phylip
  • Phill
  • Phillipp

Famous Phillips

  • Phillip Cocu · Dutch association football player and manager
  • Phillip Sharp · American biologist

In US birth records

Peak year: 1992

40s50s60s70s80s90s00s10s20s

429 US babies were named Filipe between 1940 and 2025.

Filipe around the world

  • France: 2,540 babies since 1900, peak 1977, No. 2,933 in 2025
  • England & Wales: 143 babies since 1996, peak 2014

From official birth registries. Sources are listed on About the data.

Where Filipes end up

Careervs expectedConfidence
Footballer2.5×High · 55 people
Politician1.0×Medium · 19 people
Actor1.1×Medium · 10 people
Professor0.9×Low · 8 people

Among notable men who are footballers, Filipes show up 2.5× as often as you'd expect from how common the name is.

Notable people of every nationality born 1940–2005 (Wikidata). Patterns, not destiny.

Other spellings

1 in 1282 Phillips spell it Filipe

Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.

Name twins (peaked around 1992)