Given name
Phillippa
“a friend of horses”
Phillippa is a variant of Philippa. In English use, Philippa carries the interpretation “a friend of horses.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Phillippa is a variant of Philippa. In English use, Philippa 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 1917. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Phillippa through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 66
- 0 boys · 66 girls
- Most popular year
- 1960
- 12 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 girls is 5 in 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 12 in 1960. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 261 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.
Phillippa’s family of names
Phillippa has a related form in Philippa.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Phillippa
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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