Philippos
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in German: Greek name from philos 'loving' + hippos 'horse'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fɪlɪpəʊz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Philippos 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.
- CZCzechia1 in 106as Filip(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 195as Philippe
- PLPoland1 in 217as Filip
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 Philippos 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 106 (inferred from the name graph)
≈350,000 named Philippe, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia, as Filip
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)
Greek name from philos 'loving' + hippos 'horse'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
How Philippos is read(measured from records)
Philippos is one spelling over 4 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.
- Greek48%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Philippos in Greek.
- English23%
Greek form of Philip
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- German11%
Greek name from philos 'loving' + hippos 'horse'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
- French5.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Philippos in French.
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)
Philippos 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 |
| 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); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Philippos is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, accusative plural of Philippī
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Philip the Tetrarchb. 20son of Herod the Great and ruler of the northeast part of his father's kingdom (r. 4 BCE-34 CE)
- Philip I Philadelphusb. 125Seleucid ruler
- Philip V of Macedonb. 238GRking of Macedon
- Philip III of Macedonb. 359king of Macedonia
- Philip II of Macedonb. 385GRKing of Macedon from 359 to 336 BC
- Philip IV of Macedonb. 400GRking of Macedon
- Philipb. 400builder of Alexandria on the Indus
- Philippus of Opusb. 400ITnot in their usual nameancient Greek philosopher
- Philip I of Macedonb. 700King of Macedon
- Filippos Petsalnikosb. 1950GRnot in their usual nameGreek politician (1950-2020)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 9 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #13,048 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 7 | #14,003 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2012 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 5 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 4 | #15,444 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2014 | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Philippos mean, and where does it come from?
- Greek name from philos 'loving' + hippos 'horse' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What are other forms of the name Philippos?
- In the etymology graph, Felipe, Philip and Phillip are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Philippos?
- A machine transcription gives /fɪlɪpəʊz/ (IPA) for Greek.
- Is Philippos a male or female name?
- Philippos 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.
- In which country does Philippos have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 348 thousand people named Philippe in France, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Philippos most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Philippos itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Czechia's: the national register counts about 1 in 106 people named Filip.
- How common is the name Philippos?
- 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 Philippos compared with other names?
- In France, Philippos 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/philipposThe 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, “Philippos” — the 7th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.