Given name & surname
Filips
Filips is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Latvian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Filips is a form of Fīlips. Fīlips comes from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Filips’s family of names
In Latvian usage, Filips has a conventional equivalent in the English form Philip. In Latvian usage, Filips has a conventional equivalent in the French form Philippe. In Latvian usage, Filips has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Filippo.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Filips has relatives in 7 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
8 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 20
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Filips
- Philip the HandsomeKing of Castile (1506), Ruler of Habsburg Netherlands (1482-1506)1478–1506
- Philips van der AaDutch statesman1501–1586
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