Given name & surname
Filipp
“lover of horses”
Filipp is used as a given name and a surname.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Filipp is a romanization of Филипп. Филипп goes back to Ancient Greek Φίλιππος, meaning “lover of horses.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Filipp is a romanization of Филипп. Филипп comes from Ancient Greek.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2018. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Filipp through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2018
- 5 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 boys is 5 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 238 as a first name in 2020; 116 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.
Filipp’s family of names
In Estonian usage, Filipp has a conventional equivalent in the French form Philippe. In Russian usage, Filipp is a transliteration of Филипп. In German usage, Filipp as a surname has a related form in PHILIPPI.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Filipp has relatives in 4 languages.
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Nicknames & forms 1
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 19
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Filipp
- Filipp GolikovSoviet marshal (1900-1980)
- Filipp YankovskySoviet and Russian actor and film directorborn 1968
- Filipp OktyabrskySoviet admiral (1899-1969)
- Filipp MakharadzeGeorgian Soviet politician1868–1941
- Filippo PaulucciRussian military commander (1779-1849)
- Filipp MalyavinRussian painter (1869-1940)
- Filipp FortunatovRussian philologist (1848-1914)
- Filipp GoloshchyokinSoviet politician (1876–1941)
- Filipp YegorovRussian bobsledderborn 1978
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