Given name & surname
Philipp
“one who loves horses”
In German use, Philipp has a related form in Phillip. One Greek interpretation is “one who loves horses.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In German use, Philipp has a related form in Phillip. One Greek interpretation is “one who loves horses.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
In German use, Philipp has a related form in Phillip. An origin associated with Phillip is Greek.
Explained through its name family
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 1918. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Philipp through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 986
- 986 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1997
- 25 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,403 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −49%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,403 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 48.6% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 25 in 1997. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,513 as a first name in 2020; 1,937 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.
Philipp’s family of names
In English usage, Philipp as a surname has an affectionate form in LIPP. Philipp shares a linguistic root with Philip. In German usage, Philipp has a related form in Phillip.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Philipp has relatives in 31 languages.
25 related names in 31 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 7
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 28
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- FelipeSpanish, Portuguese
- PhilippeFrench
- FilippoItalian
- FilipePortuguese
- Filipposequivalent
- Filippequivalent
- Pilipequivalent
- Пилипequivalent
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- Філіпequivalent
- Pylypequivalent
- Піліпequivalent
- Phylipequivalent
- 菲利普Chinese
- ФилиппRussian
- Philippsequivalent
- Filipsequivalent
- Φίλιπποςsource · Ancient Greek
- FülöpHungarian
- БилипSerbo-Croatian, Serbian
- ФилипSerbo-Croatian, Serbian
- FilibScots
- Philippusalso known as · Latin, German
- FelipCatalan
- FilippusIcelandic, Finnish
- VilippuFinnish
- HilippuFinnish
- HilippäFinnish
- FilippäFinnish
People named Philipp
- Philipp LenardGerman physicist (1862–1947)
- Philipp LahmGerman association football playerborn 1983
- Philipp MelanchthonGerman reformer (1497-1560)
- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield18th-century British statesman and man of letters; (1694-1773)
- Philipp ScheidemannGerman politician (1865-1939)
- Philip of SwabiaKing of the Germans, Duke of Toscana and Swabia (February/March 1177 – 21 June 1208)
- Philipp Otto RungeGerman artist (1777-1810)
- Adolf BastianGerman anthropologist (1826–1905)
- Philipp MaxGerman footballerborn 1993
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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