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Filippo

#6,920 in 2025Boys' name

Fond of horses, through Philippus

Filippo has been given to 709 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #6,920 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Filippo, 2025

1 in 276,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Filippo: meaning, origin, and history

Fond of horses, through Philippus

Ancient Greek

What Filippo means

Filippo belongs to the name family reached through Filippo → Philippus → Φίλιππος. Its meaning is “fond of horses”.

Origin, language, and formation

Filippo is used in Italian. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Filippo comes through Latin Philippus and Ancient Greek Φίλιππος.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Philip, Philippus and Φίλιππος.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Filippo is pronounced /fiˈlip.po/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 709 boys were recorded with the name Filippo between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,434 in 1973.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,526 in 2020 to #6,920 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,797 in 2015 to #6,920 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 Filippo?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,920
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Filippo 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Filippo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Filippos were born

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

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
18.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
45.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
698
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Choose a decade

1970s — 18.6% of all recorded uses (132).

Is Filippo 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
−2,320
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,394
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−123
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
54.5%
Peak was 2024 (22)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,434
1973

Spellings of Filippo

Filippo is not the most common spelling — Filip is, with 77.1% against Filippo's 22.9%.

  • Filip77.1%2,384
  • Filippo22.9%709

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 Filippo is used

Across 1910–2025, Filippo was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 348,709 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in —
  5. 5New Jersey1 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. Filippo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Filippo around the world

Where Filippo 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
    #1,897
    in 2025
  • France
    1926–2025
    #6,307
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2006
    #1,929
    in 2006
  • South Australia
    1955–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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

Filippo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,920
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,394
Best rank ever
#2,434
1973
Peak year
2024
22 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
709
Count in 2025
12

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Sibling names for Filippo

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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