Filip

Locally spelled Philippe in FR France, BE Belgium, Philip in GB United Kingdom, NG Nigeria and Phillip in US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

• Polish:/ˈfi.lip/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
• Czech:/ˈfɪlɪp/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
• Swedish:/fɪl̪ɪp/○(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Filip is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• Croatian22%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Filip in Croatian.

• Polish17%

  Philip

  as a name·Polish Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 24)

• Czech12%

  a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• English8.5%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Filip in English.

• Swedish5.3%

  The letter "F" in the Swedish spelling alphabet; not to be confused with "P" (due to the alternative spelling Philip)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Filip, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Oskar
• Aleksander
• Piotr
• Emil
• Erik

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Filip is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate name3 spellings in the group

  Also written Filĭp, Fīlīp

• Hindi given name2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Serbia, Belgium

• Albanian given name2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Albania, United States, Serbia, North Macedonia

  Also written Fìlìp

48 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Filip is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In German, in Deutschland seit den i98oer-Jahren vorkommender männl.

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• Polish and Czech form of PHILIP . Pet forms: Polish: Filipek. Czech: Filípek, Fil(ou )ek .

  as a word

• In Russian, var of Filipp.

  as a word·A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Philip II of Macedonb. 385GRKing of Macedon from 359 to 336 BC
• Philip K. Dickb. 1928USAmerican science fiction author (1928–1982)
• Phil Collinsb. 1951GBnot in their usual nameEnglish drummer, singer, and songwriter (born 1951)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

100 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 41 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Which countries have the most people named Filip?

Mondonomo estimates about 399 thousand people named Philippe in France, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Poland, Nigeria and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.

Where is Filip most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Filip is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 106 people — even though France holds more of our records for it.

What does the name Filip mean, and where does it come from?

a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

What are other forms of the name Filip?

In the etymology graph, Felipe, Philip and Phillip are forms of the same name in other languages.

How common is the name Filip?

In Poland, the national register counted 176,647 people named Filip in 2026, about 1 in 217 residents.

How common is Filip compared with other names?

In France, Filip is the 7th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.

Is Filip a male or female name?

Filip is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026), Norway (SSB), Slovenia (stat.si Imena rojstva) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020), among others.

How do you pronounce Filip?

It depends on the language: in Polish /ˈfi.lip/ (Wiktionary); in Czech /ˈfɪlɪp/ (Wiktionary); in Swedish /fɪl̪ɪp/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.