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Filipa

Girls' name

Lover of Horses, through Philippa

Filipa has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 2014. 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 2023, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Filipa, 2023

1 in 552,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Filipa: meaning, origin, and history

Lover of Horses, through Philippa

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Filipa means

Filipa belongs to the name family reached through Filipa → Philippa. Its meaning is “Lover of Horses”.

Origin, language, and formation

Filipa is used in Portuguese.

Filipa comes through Latin Philippa.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Philippa.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Filipa is pronounced /fiˈli.pɐ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 16 girls were recorded with the name Filipa between 2014 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2023; its best national rank was #13,999 in 2023.

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 Filipa?

Filipa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 552,000
6 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 267,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
382,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Filipa 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 2023 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 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Filipa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Filipas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Filipa was born before 2021 — so the typical Filipa is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
68.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
16
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 68.8% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Filipa 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2023 (6)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#13,999
2023

Spellings of Filipa

Filipa is not the most common spelling — Lilia is, with 62.5% against Filipa's 0.07%.

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.

Filipa around the world

Where Filipa 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
    1996–2022
    #4,646
    in 2022
  • France
    1971–2024
    #5,195
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1976–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Filipa 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
—
Best rank ever
#13,999
2023
Peak year
2023
6 that year
First recorded
2014
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Filipa

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

FilsanFilzaTzipaFilippaFilamenaFilizFilishaFilominaFiliciaFilicityDipaKripaPhillipaLipaFilomenaFelipa

Sibling names for Filipa

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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