Filippo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Italian given name in the same nursery-name pattern as Pippo
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/filippo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Filippo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 653(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 29K
- USUnited States1 in 253K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 246 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 653 (inferred from the name graph)
≈96,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Italian given name in the same nursery-name pattern as Pippo.
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Filippo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | #979 | ≈96,000 est. | ≈1 in 653 | 1.9K | Filippo | 110 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Filippo | 114 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 44K | 245 | — | 5 |
| US United States | — | 1,314 | 1 in 253K | 1.3K | Filippo | 246 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | 49 | Filippo | 25 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | 23 | Filippo | 18 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Filippo is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
From Greek. See }Philip in main dictionary.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Italian, a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, dal greco Philippos, 'amante dei cavalli'.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, In greco, amante dei cavalli. In Italia non rueno deU'Apostolo (10 maggio) è venerato S. Filippo Xeri (26 maggio). Oltre ai cognomi evidenti, forse il ligure
as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
In Italian, Dal greco: 'amante dei cavalli'.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Brunelleschib. 1377ITnot in their usual nameItalian architect, sculptor and engineer
- Filippo Maria Viscontib. 1392ITDuke of Milan
- Fra Filippo Lippib. 1406FRItalian Renaissance painter (c. 1406–1469)
- Filippino Lippib. 1457ITnot in their usual nameItalian painter (1457–1504)
- Filippo Juvarab. 1678ITItalian architect and stage set designer (1678–1736)
- Camillo Benso di Cavourb. 1810ITnot in their usual namefirst Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy from March to June in 1861
- Filippo Turatib. 1857ITItalian politician and journalist (1857-1932)
- Filippo Tommaso Marinettib. 1876ITItalian poet and editor, founder of the Futurist movement (1876-1944)
- Filippo Grandib. 1957ITItalian diplomat
- Filippo Inzaghib. 1973ITItalian footballer and manager
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 78 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 1.9K | #20 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.3K | #10,227 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 245 | #2,493 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 12 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3 | #10,227 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 1 | #11,856 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Filippo mean, and where does it come from?
- Italian given name in the same nursery-name pattern as Pippo. Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does Filippo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 96 thousand people named Filippo in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled filippo.
- How do you pronounce Filippo?
- A machine transcription gives /filippo/ (IPA) for Italian.
- Is Filippo a male or female name?
- Filippo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Filippo?
- In the etymology graph, Felipe, Philip and Phillip are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Filippo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,314 people named Filippo in 2020, about 1 in 253 thousand residents.
- How common is Filippo compared with other names?
- In Italy, Filippo is the 979th most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/filippoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Filippo” — the 979th most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.