Given name
Filipa
“a friend of horses”
In Spanish use, Filipa carries the interpretation “a friend of horses.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In Spanish use, Filipa carries the interpretation “a friend of horses.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Spanish.
How it developed
Filipa is used as a feminine counterpart of Philip.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2014. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Filipa through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 16
- 0 boys · 16 girls
- Most popular year
- 2023
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 212 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Filipa’s family of names
Filipa has a short form in Lipa. Filipa is a feminine form of Philip. In Portuguese usage, Filipa has a conventional equivalent in the English form Philippa.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 10
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Philippavariant · Portuguese, English
- Lipashort form
- Filippavariant
- Fillippavariant
- Fillipavariant
- Filipynavariant
- Filipeenavariant
- Filipinavariant
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Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Filipa
- Filipa AzevedoPortuguese singerborn 1991
- Filipa SousaPortuguese singerborn 1985
- Filipa Moniz PerestreloPortuguese noble1451–1485
- Filipa CésarPortuguese filmmakerborn 1975
- Felipa de SouzaLuso-Brazilian activist1556–1600
- Filipa CavalleriPortuguese judokaborn 1973
- Filipa Carmo da SilvaSouth African singerborn 1995
- Filipa AreosaPortuguese film and television actressborn 1992
- Filipa de AlmadaPortuguese poet and noblewoman1500–1493
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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