Philipp
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in German: from Greek Philippos 'lover of horses'; source of Zappelphilipp
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fɪlɪp/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Philipp is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country, where it is the 7th most common given name.
- ATAustria≈1 in 370(inferred from the name graph)
- CZCzechia1 in 106as Filip
- FRFrance≈1 in 195as Philippe
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Philipp itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- #123 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 618 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 370 (inferred from the name graph)
≈350,000 named Philippe, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Filip in PL Poland, CZ Czechia, MK North Macedonia, 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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the male personal name Philip, ultimately from Greek Philippos, literally ‘lover of horses’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
How Philipp is read(measured from records)
Philipp is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- German86%
from Greek Philippos 'lover of horses'; source of Zappelphilipp
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
from Greek philos 'loving' + hippos 'horse'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Patronymischer Familienname zum Rufnamen Philippus < griech. Philippos ('pílos' 'Freund' + 'híppos' 'Pferd'); Belegbasis: 12 Typen/8328 Tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Philipp (< griech. Philippos, 'Pferdefreund').
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Philipp; 8328 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
- English5.0%
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Philipp 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #7 | ≈350,000 est. | ≈1 in 195 | 539K | Philippe | 469 |
| US United States | #90 | 223,037as Philip | 1 in 1.5K | 361K | Phillip | 618 |
| NG Nigeria | #260 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Philip | 128 |
| PL Poland | #123 | 176,647as Filip | 1 in 217 | 177K | Filip | 187 |
| GB United Kingdom | #41 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 416 | 106K | Philip | 389 |
| CZ Czechia | #36 | 100,928as Filip | 1 in 106 | 101K | Filip | 170 |
| BE Belgium | #3 | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 243 | 2.8K | Philippe | 212 |
| AT Austria | #23 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 370 | 22K | Philipp | 187 |
| MK North Macedonia | #3 | 9,484as Филип | 1 in 224 | 9.5K | Filip | 70 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); MVČR — living population register 2017; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); State Statistical Office — living population names. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Novalisb. 1772DEnot in their usual nameGerman poet and writer (1772-1801)
- Ignaz Semmelweisb. 1818HUnot in their usual nameHungarian physician, early pioneer of antiseptic procedures (1818–1865)
- Philipp Ludwig von Seidelb. 1821DEGerman mathematician, optician and astronomer (1821-1896)
- Wilhelm Liebknechtb. 1826DEnot in their usual nameGerman journalist, writer and socialist politician (1826–1900)
- Ernst Haeckelb. 1834DEnot in their usual nameGerman zoologist (1834-1919)
- Philipp Lenardb. 1862DEGerman physicist (1862–1947)
- Albert Schweitzerb. 1875FRnot in their usual nameFrench-German physician, theologian, musician, and philosopher (1875-1965)
- Philip Noel-Bakerb. 1889GBBritish athlete, politician, Cabinet minister, life peer and Nobel Peace Prize winner (1889–1982)
- Claus Schenk von Stauffenbergb. 1907DEnot in their usual nameGerman aristocrat, army officer and resistance fighter (1907-1944)
- Philipp Lahmb. 1983DEGerman association football player
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 77 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 22K | #68 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.5K | #9,267 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 785 | #548 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 740 | #543 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 216 | #924 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 117 | #68 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 108 | #1,020 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4 | #9,267 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2023 | 2 | — |
Reference works 8
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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
- In which country does Philipp have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 348 thousand people named Philippe in France, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where does the name Philipp come from?
- From the male personal name Philip, ultimately from Greek Philippos, literally ‘lover of horses’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Philipp?
- A machine transcription gives /fɪlɪp/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Philipp mean?
- In German, from Greek Philippos 'lover of horses'; source of Zappelphilipp
- Is Philipp a male or female name?
- Philipp 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 Philipp?
- In the etymology graph, Felipe, Philip and Phillip are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Philipp?
- In the United States, the national register counted 223,037 people named Philip in 2020, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Philipp compared with other names?
- In France, Philipp is the 7th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/philippThe 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, “Philipp” — the 7th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.