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Felipa

Girls' name

Feminine form of Philip

Felipa has been given to 2,249 babies in the U.S. since 1893. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1919, with 58 recorded.

Babies named Felipa, 2024

1 in 557,000

Felipa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Felipa: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Philip

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Felipa means

Felipa is a feminine form of Philip.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Felipa is used in Spanish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /fe.ˈli.pa/ for Felipa.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Felipa → Philip. The family’s meaning is “fond of horses”, recorded in English with the source elements phílippos.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Philip and Philippa.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Felipa is pronounced /feˈlipa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,249 girls were recorded with the name Felipa between 1893 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 58 in 1919; its best national rank was #929 in 1919.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Felipa?

Felipa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Felipa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Felipa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Felipas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Felipa was born before 1936 — so the typical Felipa is around 89 today.

Median birth year
1936
About 89 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
21.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
756
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 21.8% of all recorded uses (490).

Is Felipa rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1919 (58)
Years since peak
106
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#929
1919

Spellings of Felipa

Felipa is not the most common spelling — Felicia is, with 19.1% against Felipa's 0.47%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Felipa is used

Across 1910–2025, Felipa was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 20,084 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in 100,000).

111 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 9,091
  2. 2New Mexico1 in 25,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Felipa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Felipa around the world

Where Felipa ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1926–1931
    #973
    in 1931

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Notable people named Felipa

People whose public names include Felipa, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Felipa in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Felipa. Linked forms have their own page here.

FilipaPhilippaPhillipaPhillippaPhilipa

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Felipa by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#929
1919
Peak year
1919
58 that year
First recorded
1893
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
2,249
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Felipa

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

FelicaFelisaFelinaFeliceFelixFelitaFelicitaFelishaFeleciaFelicianaFelicityFelicitasFelizFelissaFelipeFelciaFelizaFelisiaFelichaFeliciaFelicieFeleshaKripaFelishia

Names with a curve like Felipa

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Felipa, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Felipa

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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