Philipson
surname · Latin script
Meaning: son of Philip; first attested Gilbert Phelipson 1396 AssSt
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Philipson is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
- SESweden
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
son of Philip; first attested Gilbert Phelipson 1396 AssSt
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Philipson 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 English, A surname transferred from the given name.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, son of Philip.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
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)
- Anne Philipsonb. 1583(died 1637)
- David Philipsonb. 1862USAmerican rabbi (1862-1949)
- Hylton Philipsonb. 1866GBCricket player of England. (1866-1935)
- Mabel Philipsonb. 1886GBBritish politician, former actress and Gaiety Girl (1887-1951)
- Dino Philipsonb. 1889ITItalian politician
- Hilton Philipsonb. 1892GBBritish politician (1892-1941)
- William Raymond Philipsonb. 1911NZEnglish-born New Zealand botanist and explorer (1911–1997)
- Robin Philipsonb. 1916GBBritish artist (1916-1992)
- Melva Noeline Philipsonb. 1925NZNew Zealand botanist (1925–2015)
- Tomas J. Philipsonb. 1962USAmerican economist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 1K | #6,553 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 481 | #42,437 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 467 | #45,740 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 444 | #50,816 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 292 | #3,037 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 78 | #6,950 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 26 | #37,486 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 9 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 9 | #15,766 |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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 Philipson mean, and where does it come from?
- son of Philip; first attested Gilbert Phelipson 1396 AssSt Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Philipson have the most bearers?
- Philipson is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Philipson”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.