Given name & surname
Filipe
“fond of horses”
Filipe is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek, meaning “fond of horses.” It is used in Portuguese.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Ancient Greek Φίλιππος (“fond of horses”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1975. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Filipe through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 429
- 429 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1992
- 17 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,105 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −58%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,105 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 17 in 1992. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,521 as a first name in 2020; 426 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Filipe’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Filipe has a conventional equivalent in the German form Phillip. In Portuguese usage, Filipe has a conventional equivalent in the English form Philip. In Portuguese usage, Filipe has a related form in Felipe.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Filipe has relatives in 7 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
7 related names in 7 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 24
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Filipe
- Filipe LuísBrazilian football coach and former association footballerborn 1985
- Filipe NyusiPresident of Mozambique, 2015-2025born 1959
- Filipe Neri Ferrãoseventh Roman Catholic Patriarch of the East Indiesborn 1953
- Filipe AugustoBrazilian footballerborn 1993
- Filipe MachadoBrazilian footballer and manager (1984-2016)
- Filipe de Brito e Nicoteadventurer, mercenary, and Governor of Syriam (1605-1613)1566–1613
- Filipe Albuquerqueracing driver for Audi in the World Endurance Championshipborn 1985
- Filipe TeixeiraPortuguese footballerborn 1980
- Filipe de MagalhãesPortuguese composer1563–1652
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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