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Filip

#2,951 in 2025Boys' name

Fond of horses, through Philipp

Filip has been given to 2,384 babies in the U.S. since 1953. In 2025 it ranked #2,951 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 127 recorded.

Babies named Filip, 2025

1 in 78,900

Filip over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Filip: meaning, origin, and history

Fond of horses, through Philipp

Ancient Greek and Greek

What Filip means

Filip belongs to the name family reached through Filip → Philipp. Its meaning is “fond of horses”.

Origin, language, and formation

Filip is used in Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Faroese, German, Norwegian and Polish and additional language sections. Its origins include Ancient Greek and Greek.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Philip and Philipp.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Catalan, Filip is pronounced [fiˈlip].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,384 boys were recorded with the name Filip between 1953 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 127 in 2012; its best national rank was #1,340 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,195 in 2020 to #2,951 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,937 in 2015 to #2,951 in 2025.

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 Filip?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 78,900
42 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 40,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,951
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
54,713 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Filip sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 54,713 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Filip. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Filips were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Filip was born before 2010 — so the typical Filip is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
80.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,384
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.7% of all recorded uses (899).

Is Filip 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
−380
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−756
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,014
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.56×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
33.1%
Peak was 2012 (127)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,340
2012

Spellings of Filip

Filip is not the most common spelling — Philip is, with 74.0% against Filip's 0.51%.

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 Filip is used

Across 2016–2025, Filip was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 2,941 boys, against 1 in 20,355 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

034 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 2,941
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 11,111
  3. 3New York1 in 14,286
  4. 4Virginia1 in 33,333
  5. 5California1 in 50,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 50,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 50,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Filip around the world

Where Filip 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #342
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2006–2025
    #495
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2007–2023
    #395
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    2003–2025
    #372
    in 2025
  • France
    1967–2025
    #1,237
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #27
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,037
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1962–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Filip

People whose public names include Filip, 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.

Filip in other languages

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

FelipeFilipeFilippPhilipFilippoPhilippPhillipFilipposPhilippeFülöpPylypFilipsPhylipFilippusPhilippus

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

Filip by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,951
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 756
Best rank ever
#1,340
2012
Peak year
2012
127 that year
First recorded
1953
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,384
Count in 2025
42

Names similar to Filip

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

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Names with a curve like Filip

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

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Sibling names for Filip

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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