Felipe
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: Philip (biblical apostle)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/felipe/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Felipe is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 25th most common given name.
- CLChile≈1 in 153(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 313
- COColombia≈1 in 482
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #355 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 445 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 153 (inferred from the name graph)
676,680 people, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Spanish form of Philip, from Greek 'lover of horses'
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Felipe is read(measured from records)
Felipe is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- Spanish52%
Philip (biblical apostle)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese35%
- English6.5%
Spanish form of Philip, from Greek 'lover of horses'
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Felipe 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #25 | 676,680 | 1 in 313 | 677K | Felipe | 290 |
| CL Chile | #49 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 153 | 597 | Felipe | 206 |
| CO Colombia | #28 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 482 | 34 | Felipe | 224 |
| PH Philippines | #320 | ≈92,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Felipe | 105 |
| US United States | #891 | 58,515 | 1 in 5.7K | 58K | Felipe | 445 |
| PE Peru | #96 | ≈49,000 est. | ≈1 in 655 | — | Felipe | 123 |
| PY Paraguay | #865 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 722 | — | Felipe | 53 |
676,680 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the co-datosgov-candidates register; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
Felipe is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Se Filip.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In French, Forme espagnole de Philippe, grec philos + hippos « ami des chevaux ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Spanish form of PHILIP .
as a word
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 II of Spainb. 1527ESnot in their usual nameKing of Spain, Portugal, Naples and Sicily; King consort of England, lived 1527-1598
- Philip III of Spainb. 1578ESnot in their usual nameKing of Castilla and León and King of Aragon and Portugal (1578-1621)
- Philip IV of Spainb. 1605ESnot in their usual nameKing of Spain and Portugal (1605-1665)
- Felipe Vb. 1683FRKing of Spain from 1700 to 1746 (1683–1746)
- Santiago Ramón y Cajalb. 1852ESnot in their usual nameSpanish scientist (1852-1934)
- Javier Pérez de Cuéllarb. 1920PEnot in their usual name5th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1920-2020)
- Felipe Gonzálezb. 1942ESPrime Minister of Spain from 1982 to 1996
- FCHb. 1962MXnot in their usual name63th President of Mexico
- Felipe VI of Spainb. 1968ESKing of Spain since 2014
- Felipe Melob. 1983BRBrazilian 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 93 sources across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 677K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 672K | #20 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 621K | #45 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes no Brasil API (Census 2010 + 2022) | — | 616K | #18 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 58K | #813 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 32K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 4.6K | #20 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 597 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 244 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 185 | #813 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 34 | #87 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Where does the name Felipe come from?
- Spanish form of Philip, from Greek 'lover of horses' Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- What does the name Felipe mean?
- In Spanish, Philip (biblical apostle)
- What are other forms of the name Felipe?
- In the etymology graph, Philip, Phillip and Philippe are forms of the same name in other languages; Felipinho is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Felipe have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 677 thousand people named Felipe, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled felipe.
- How do you pronounce Felipe?
- A machine transcription gives /felipe/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Felipe a male or female name?
- Felipe 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.
- How common is the name Felipe?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 676,680 people named Felipe in 2022, about 1 in 313 residents.
- How common is Felipe compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Felipe is the 25th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/felipeThe 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, “Felipe” — the 25th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.