Given name & surname
Filippa
“a friend of horses”
Filippa is a variant of Filipa. In Spanish use, Filipa carries the interpretation “a friend of horses.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Filippa is a variant of Filipa. In Spanish use, Filipa carries the interpretation “a friend of horses.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Filippa through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 153
- 0 boys · 153 girls
- Most popular year
- 2020
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #13,767 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −25%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 13,767 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 307 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.
Filippa’s family of names
In Italian usage, Filippa has a short form in LIPPA. In Swedish usage, Filippa shares a linguistic root with the English form Philippa. Filippa has a related form in Filipa.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Filippa has relatives in 4 languages.
4 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Filippa
- Philippa of EnglandQueen Consort of Sweden, Norway and Denmark, Royal Princess of England1394–1430
- Filippa AngeldahlSwedish association football playerborn 1997
- Philippine Élisabeth d'OrléansFrench princess (1714-1734)
- Filippa HamiltonFrench modelborn 1985
- Filippa GiordanoMexican-Italian singerborn 1974
- Filippa DuciItalian courtesan, mistress of the future king Henry II of France1520–1586
- Filippa IdéhnSwedish handball playerborn 1990
- Philippa Mareribeatified Italian nun1190–1236
- Filippa FotopoulouCypriot athlete (born 1996)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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