Filipe
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Felipe; friend of horses; Faro; origin marked (P)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/filipi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Filipe is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Portugal it is the 24th most common given name.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 193(inferred from the name graph)
- AOAngola≈1 in 1.7K
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 3.8K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 250 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 193 (inferred from the name graph)
55,537 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Portugal, 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)
Felipe; friend of horses; Faro; origin marked (P)
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Filipe 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 | #299 | 55,537 | 1 in 3.8K | 62K | Filipe | 217 |
| PT Portugal | #24 | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 193 | listed | Filipe | 221 |
| AO Angola | #31 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Filipe | 57 |
| FR France | — | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 2.5K | Filipe | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | #408 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | 291 | Filipe | 74 |
55,537 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); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Filipe is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, Philip, the apostle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, variante de Felipe
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
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)
- Manuel II of Portugalb. 1889PTnot in their usual nameKing of Portugal (1889–1932)
- Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belob. 1948TLRoman Catholic bishop
- Filipe Nyusib. 1959MZPresident of Mozambique, 2015-2025
- Filipe Luís Kasmirskib. 1985BRBrazilian football coach and former association footballer
- Rúben Amorimb. 1985PTnot in their usual namePortuguese professional football manager and former player
- João Moutinhob. 1986PTnot in their usual namePortuguese association football player (born 1986)
- Andre Gomesb. 1993PTnot in their usual namePortuguese association football player (born 1993)
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 70 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 62K | #669 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 56K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 55K | #527 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2018 | 2.5K | #2,525 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 2.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 363 | #527 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Filipe mean, and where does it come from?
- Felipe; friend of horses; Faro; origin marked (P) Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- Is Filipe a male or female name?
- Filipe 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 do you pronounce Filipe?
- A machine transcription gives /filipi/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- What are other forms of the name Filipe?
- In the etymology graph, Felipe, Philip and Phillip are forms of the same name in other languages; Felipinho is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Filipe have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 56 thousand people named Filipe, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled filipe.
- How common is the name Filipe?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 55,537 people named Filipe in 2022, about 1 in 3.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Filipe compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Filipe is the 299th 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/filipeThe 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, “Filipe” — the 299th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.