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Filippa

#13,763 in 2025Girls' name

English equivalent of Philippa

Filippa has been given to 153 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #13,763 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Filippa, 2025

1 in 553,000

Filippa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Filippa: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Philippa

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Filippa means

Filippa is a English equivalent of Philippa.

Origin, language, and formation

Filippa is used in Danish, Faroese, Italian and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Philippa.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Swedish, Filippa is pronounced /fɪ²lɪpa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 153 girls were recorded with the name Filippa between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2020; its best national rank was #3,427 in 1920.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,786 in 2020 to #13,763 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.

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How common is Filippa?

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 girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,763
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Filippa 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 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 Filippa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Filippas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Filippa was born before 2013 — so the typical Filippa is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
34.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
93
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Choose a decade

2010s — 34.6% of all recorded uses (53).

Is Filippa 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
−3,977
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
60.0%
Peak was 2020 (10)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,427
1920

Spellings of Filippa

Filippa is not the most common spelling — Felipa is, with 53.3% against Filippa's 3.6%.

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 Filippa is used

Across 1910–2025, Filippa was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 514,888 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 York1 in —

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

Filippa around the world

Where Filippa 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
    2003–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2025–2025
    #885
    in 2025
  • France
    1961–2025
    #3,631
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #68
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2015–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1949–2006
    #782
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.

Filippa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,763
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,977
Best rank ever
#3,427
1920
Peak year
2020
10 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
153
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Filippa

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

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Sibling names for Filippa

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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