Filipino Girl Names

This selection follows names documented in Tagalog or Cebuano, including inherited local forms and international names. The collection balances recognizable names with less-used choices. The figures describe these spellings in U.S. records; they are not rankings in the source language’s home countries.

Save nameName & connection
History
1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled
Babies 2025 · rank5-year rank movementPeak year

Recorded in Tagalog; in U.S. records from 1917.

1,829#164
Down 11 rank positions in five years
1987

Recorded in Cebuano; in U.S. records from 1881.

437#655
Down 77 rank positions in five years
1947

Recorded in Tagalog; in U.S. records from 1880.

68#2,567
Up 369 rank positions in five years
1930

Recorded in Tagalog; in U.S. records from 1880.

241#1,034
Up 411 rank positions in five years
1958

Recorded in Tagalog; in U.S. records from 1881.

1,998#147
Up 111 rank positions in five years
2025

Recorded in Cebuano; in U.S. records from 1886.

324#839
Up 171 rank positions in five years
1999

Recorded in Cebuano; in U.S. records from 1882.

186#1,219
Up 318 rank positions in five years
1923

Recorded in Tagalog; in U.S. records from 1903.

188#1,209
Down 260 rank positions in five years
2000

Recorded in Cebuano; in U.S. records from 1918.

132#1,590
Down 577 rank positions in five years
2003

Recorded in Cebuano; in U.S. records from 1914.

477#612
Up 127 rank positions in five years
2005

Recorded in Cebuano; in U.S. records from 1914.

86#2,169
Down 278 rank positions in five years
2000

Recorded in Cebuano; in U.S. records from 1916.

58#2,917
Down 551 rank positions in five years
1963

Recorded in Cebuano; in U.S. records from 1909.

345#785
Up 96 rank positions in five years
2024

Recorded in Cebuano; in U.S. records from 1896.

89#2,114
Up 322 rank positions in five years
1993

Recorded in Cebuano; in U.S. records from 1880.

32#4,440
Down 1,310 rank positions in five years
1917

Recorded in Cebuano; in U.S. records from 1933.

137#1,545
Up 84 rank positions in five years
2008

Recorded in Cebuano; in U.S. records from 1891.

33#4,294
Down 647 rank positions in five years
1978

Recorded in Cebuano; in U.S. records from 1887.

14#7,564
Down 880 rank positions in five years
1973

Recorded in Cebuano; in U.S. records from 1896.

47#3,335
Down 69 rank positions in five years
2005

Recorded in Tagalog; in U.S. records from 1901.

14#7,859
Down 1,795 rank positions in five years
1927

Recorded in Cebuano; in U.S. records from 1912.

322#846
Up 1,122 rank positions in five years
2025

Recorded in Cebuano; in U.S. records from 1900.

—Unranked
—
1949

Recorded in Cebuano; in U.S. records from 1913.

326#836
Up 60 rank positions in five years
2021

Recorded in Cebuano; in U.S. records from 1891.

10#10,043
Down 3,148 rank positions in five years
1962

Recorded in Tagalog; in U.S. records from 1911.

8#10,997
new
1927

Recorded in Tagalog; in U.S. records from 1915.

—Unranked
—
1948

Recorded in Tagalog; in U.S. records from 1913.

43#3,575
Down 435 rank positions in five years
2023

Recorded in Cebuano; in U.S. records from 1914.

24#5,333
Up 1,184 rank positions in five years
1982

Recorded in Cebuano; in U.S. records from 1972.

124#1,668
Down 192 rank positions in five years
2024

Recorded in Tagalog; in U.S. records from 1963.

42#3,627
Up 3,482 rank positions in five years
2025

Recorded in Cebuano; in U.S. records from 1974.

8#11,006
Down 2,998 rank positions in five years
2015

Recorded in Cebuano; in U.S. records from 1960.

—Unranked
—
1990

Recorded in Cebuano; in U.S. records from 1933.

13#7,977
Up 7,666 rank positions in five years
1986

Recorded in Tagalog; in U.S. records from 1915.

—Unranked
—
1925

Recorded in Tagalog; in U.S. records from 1969.

—Unranked
—
1980

Recorded in Cebuano; in U.S. records from 1961.

—Unranked
—
1980

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Sources & methodology

Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.

Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.

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