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Filipe

#11,101 in 2025Boys' name

Fond of horses

Filipe has been given to 429 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #11,101 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1992, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Filipe, 2025

1 in 553,000

Filipe over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Filipe: meaning, origin, and history

Fond of horses

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Filipe means

Filipe means “fond of horses”, associated with Phílippos.

Origin, language, and formation

Filipe is used in Portuguese.

Filipe comes through Ancient Greek Φίλιππος.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Philip.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Filipe is pronounced /fiˈli.pi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 429 boys were recorded with the name Filipe between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1992; its best national rank was #2,883 in 1982.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,678 in 2015 to #11,101 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 Filipe?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,101
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Filipe 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Filipe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Filipes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Filipe was born before 1997 — so the typical Filipe is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
24.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
42.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
429
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 24.5% of all recorded uses (105).

Is Filipe 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,577
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
35.3%
Peak was 1992 (17)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,883
1982

Spellings of Filipe

Filipe is not the most common spelling — Felipe is, with 88.3% against Filipe's 1.2%.

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 Filipe is used

Across 1910–2025, Filipe was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 699,121 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in —
  2. 2New Jersey1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —

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. Filipe has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Filipe around the world

Where Filipe 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
    1996–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    1964–2025
    #5,770
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2016
    #2,204
    in 2016

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Filipe by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,101
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#2,883
1982
Peak year
1992
17 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
429
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Filipe

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

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Sibling names for Filipe

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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