Given name
Philippos
“one who loves horses”
Philippos is a variant of Phillip. One Greek interpretation is “one who loves horses.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Philippos is a variant of Phillip. One Greek interpretation is “one who loves horses.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Philippos is a variant of Phillip. An origin associated with Phillip is Greek.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2001. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Philippos through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 42
- 42 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2021
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,662 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,662 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Philippos’s family of names
Philippos has a related form in Phillip. In Coptic usage, Philippos is a Roman-alphabet rendering of ⲫⲓⲗⲓⲡⲡⲟⲥ.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
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 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Philippos
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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