Filipino Names

This selection follows names documented in Tagalog or Cebuano, including inherited local forms and international names. Compare these spellings using U.S. birth records, which do not measure popularity in other countries.

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

Recorded in Cebuano; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1933.

1,009#303
Down 117 rank positions in five years
1970

Recorded in Cebuano; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1881.

594#509
Down 196 rank positions in five years
1990

Recorded in Cebuano; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1909.

32#4,375
Up 95 rank positions in five years
1958

Recorded in Cebuano; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1915.

198#1,089
Down 230 rank positions in five years
1956

Recorded in Cebuano; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1880.

319#792
Down 67 rank positions in five years
1957

Recorded in Tagalog; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1881.

12#8,533
Down 2,379 rank positions in five years
1951

Recorded in Cebuano; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1880.

139#1,352
Down 8 rank positions in five years
1925

Recorded in Tagalog; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1914.

—Unranked
—
1954

Recorded in Tagalog; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1880.

20#6,058
Up 795 rank positions in five years
1941

Recorded in Cebuano; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1914.

40#3,766
Down 1,187 rank positions in five years
1974

Recorded in Tagalog; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1907.

—Unranked
—
1956

Recorded in Tagalog; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1880.

94#1,732
Down 362 rank positions in five years
1981

Recorded in Cebuano; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1921.

13#8,279
Up 595 rank positions in five years
1957

Recorded in Tagalog; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1915.

21#4,760
Down 574 rank positions in five years
1961

Recorded in Cebuano; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1880.

52#2,551
Down 447 rank positions in five years
1962

Recorded in Tagalog; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1880.

5#16,667
new
1959

Recorded in Cebuano; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1912.

214#1,036
Down 114 rank positions in five years
1961

Recorded in Tagalog; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1921.

55#2,464
Up 539 rank positions in five years
1960

Recorded in Cebuano; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1882.

343#752
Down 2 rank positions in five years
1926

Recorded in Cebuano; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1880.

786#405
Down 234 rank positions in five years
2017

Recorded in Cebuano; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1968.

134#1,571
Up 339 rank positions in five years
1989

Recorded in Cebuano; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1889.

10#7,811
Down 664 rank positions in five years
1931

Recorded in Cebuano; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1971.

161#1,368
Down 212 rank positions in five years
2003

Recorded in Cebuano; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1913.

—Unranked
—
1952

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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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