Filipa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Philippa
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/filipɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Filipa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Portugal than in any other country, where it is the 52nd most common given name.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 332(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 100K
- BRBrazil1 in 565K
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.
- Portugal (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 165 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 332 (inferred from the name graph)
≈31,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a female given name, equivalent to English Philippa
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Filipa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PT Portugal | #52 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 332 | listed | Filipa | 165 |
| AO Angola | #371 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Filipa | 23 |
| FR France | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 100K | listed | Filipa | 164 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Filipa | 47 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 266K | — | Filipa | 4 |
| BR Brazil | — | 375 | 1 in 565K | 375 | Filipa | 53 |
| HR Croatia | — | 336 | 1 in 13K | 378 | — | — |
| LU Luxembourg | #137 | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Filipa | 12 |
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); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 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)
Filipa 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 Basque, ( Dv → A ). "Sorte de boisson des pauvres sur la côte de Saint-Jean-de-Luz" Dv .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- Philippa of Armeniab. 1183not in their usual nameByzantine empress
- Filipa de Lencastreb. 1360GBEnglish noblewoman and Portuguese queen consort
- Felipa Moniz de Perestrellob. 1451PTnot in their usual namePortuguese noble
- Felipa de Souzab. 1556PTnot in their usual nameLuso-Brazilian activist
- Filipa Cavallerib. 1973PTPortuguese judoka
- Filipa Césarb. 1975PTPortuguese filmmaker
- Filipa Reisb. 1977PTPortuguese film director and producer
- Filipa Sousab. 1985PTPortuguese singer
- Filipa Azevedob. 1991PTPortuguese singer
- Filipa Areosab. 1992PTPortuguese film and television actress
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 53 sources across 28 countries.
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name 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
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 Filipa mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, equivalent to English Philippa Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Filipa?
- A machine transcription gives /filipɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Filipa a male or female name?
- Filipa is a female 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 Filipa?
- In the etymology graph, Felipa, Philippa and Philippine are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Filipa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named Filipa in Portugal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled filipa.
- How common is the name Filipa?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 375 people named Filipa in 2022, about 1 in 565 thousand residents.
- How common is Filipa compared with other names?
- In Portugal, Filipa is the 52nd most common given name of 19,352 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/filipaThe 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, “Filipa” — the 52nd most common given name in Portugal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.