Names of Philippines PH

PSA — Most Common Baby Names (2017–present) records Althea as the commonest given name in the Philippines; the names that most distinguish the Philippines from the rest of the world are Dela, Cruz and Mnu.

Written in English, Filipino.

Population
109M
Official registers
1
Name forms recorded
170K
BBuilt from 1 official register (2023), 170,108 name forms in our corpus, 5 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.

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Where the names most characteristic of Philippines are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Philippines included.

How names work in Philippines

2 naming traditions are in use in Philippines, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.

The most common names in Philippines

Counts children born in the year · authority tier 3
PSA — Most Common Baby Names (2017–present), 2023 — 20 given names counted over children born that year, girls only, as the register publishes them.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1Althea1.1K—
2Angel796—
3Zoey713—
4Chloe622—
5Sofia608—
6Ayesha603—
7Athena589—
8Samantha580—
9Nathalie571—
10Zia571—
11Princess558—
12Ashley545—
13Jasmine544—
14Jillian522—
15Alexa514—
16Angela474—
17Sophia473—
18Andrea444—
19Brianna428—
20Janella417—

Where the two lists disagree

20 of PSA — Most Common Baby Names (2017–present)'s top 20 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

PSA — Most Common Baby Names (2017–present) 2023Across all recordsalthea: 1 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country1. altheanot rankedangel: 2 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country2. angelnot rankedzoey: 3 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country3. zoeynot rankedchloe: 4 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country4. chloenot rankedsofia: 5 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country5. sofianot rankedayesha: 6 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country6. ayeshanot rankedathena: 7 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country7. athenanot rankedsamantha: 8 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country8. samanthanot rankednathalie: 9 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country9. nathalienot rankedzia: 10 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country10. zianot rankedprincess: 11 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country11. princessnot rankedashley: 12 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country12. ashleynot rankedjasmine: 13 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country13. jasminenot rankedjillian: 14 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country14. jilliannot rankedalexa: 15 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country15. alexanot rankedangela: 16 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country16. angelanot rankedsophia: 17 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country17. sophianot rankedandrea: 18 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country18. andreanot rankedbrianna: 19 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country19. briannanot rankedjanella: 20 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country20. janellanot ranked
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
PSA — Most Common Baby Names (2017–present), 2023 on the left; every record we hold for Philippines on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Characteristic of Philippines

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Philippines holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

MnuAnnAiwaMarkJoyJocelynMaricelMaeGraceMaryJohnRowenaJoelErlindaAnalynJayMarilouJaneRomeoRolandoReynaldoRogelioRenatoMarivicJosephineRodelJessaEvangelineRoseChristianJoselitoDaniloJonalynNenitaRommelTeresitaArnelShielaJovelynGinaJaysonJomarMarlonAllanRollyEfrenMarilynRosemarieCorazonMyrnaJenelynMaritesJhon
Sized by how much of the difference between Philippines's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.(measured from records)

Scripts & spelling

Marygiven name(measured from records)
Delasurname(measured from records)
Johngiven name(measured from records)
Anngiven name(measured from records)
Cruzsurname(measured from records)
The best-attested names in Philippines, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-10-09.

Questions

What is the most common given name in Philippines?
Althea, according to PSA — Most Common Baby Names (2017–present) (2023), with 1,106 bearers recorded among girls.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Philippines?
Because they count different people. PSA — Most Common Baby Names (2017–present) (2023) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Althea. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Mary. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.
Is there one naming system in Philippines?
No — 2 are described on this page (Filipino, British), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Philippines”, https://mondonomo.ai/names/PH (data snapshot 2026-10-09). Official figures from PSA — Most Common Baby Names (2017–present).