Philippus
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Greek Philippos 'lover of horses'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fʲɪʎɪpʰʊs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Philippus 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 Philippus 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)
from Greek Philippos 'lover of horses'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Philippus 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)
Philippus 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.
In German, Greek 'horse-friend'; biblical name.
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, Patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Philipp(us)/Philipp, aus griech.-lat. Philippos „Pferdefreund“; 767 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, Patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Philippus; der Apostel Philippus als Namensgrundlage. Bearer count: 769.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, Patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Philipp/Philippus; lat. Genitiv bzw. synkopierte Formen. 763 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, Aus lat. Philippus, aus dem Rufnamen Philipp; 30 Belege (Westerwald).
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
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)
- Philipb. 800Italian priest, antipope in 768
- Paracelsusb. 1493CHnot in their usual nameSwiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
- Philippus Roveniusb. 1573NLDutch archbishop (1573-1651)
- Giacomo Filippo Tomasinib. 1595ITnot in their usual nameItalian historian (1595-1655)
- Philipp von Zesenb. 1619DEnot in their usual nameGerman poet (1619–1689)
- Philippus Innemeeb. 1902NLDutch cyclist (1902-1963)
- Pieter Philippus Jansenb. 1902NLDutch structural engineer (1902-1982)
- Philip Bloemendalb. 1918NLDutch news reader (1918-1999)
- André Brinkb. 1935ZAnot in their usual nameSouth African writer (1935–2015)
- Philippusfather of Aristophanes
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 25 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #38,487 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 2 | #40,890 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 1998 | — | — |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Philippus mean, and where does it come from?
- from Greek Philippos 'lover of horses' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What are other forms of the name Philippus?
- In the etymology graph, Felipe, Philip and Phillip are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Philippus?
- A machine transcription gives /fʲɪʎɪpʰʊs/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Philippus a male or female name?
- Philippus 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 Philippus have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 348 thousand people named Philippe in France, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Philippus most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Philippus 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 Philippus?
- 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 Philippus compared with other names?
- In France, Philippus 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/philippusThe 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, “Philippus” — the 7th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.