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Philipp

#13,399 in 2025Boys' name

Fond of horses

Philipp has been given to 986 babies in the U.S. since 1918. In 2025 it ranked #13,399 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1997, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Philipp, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Philipp: meaning, origin, and history

Fond of horses

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Philipp means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Philipp is used in German.

Philipp comes through Ancient Greek Φίλιππος.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Philip.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Philipp is pronounced /ˈfɪlɪp/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 986 boys were recorded with the name Philipp between 1918 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 1997; its best national rank was #2,106 in 1967.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,536 in 2020 to #13,399 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,347 in 2015 to #13,399 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 Philipp?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,399
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Philipp 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Philipp. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Philipps were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Philipp was born before 1988 — so the typical Philipp is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
17.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
29.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
876
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 17.0% of all recorded uses (168).

Is Philipp 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
−4,590
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−6,863
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,052
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.63×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
20.0%
Peak was 1997 (25)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,106
1967

Spellings of Philipp

Philipp is not the most common spelling — Philip is, with 52.0% against Philipp's 0.15%.

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 Philipp is used

Across 1910–2025, Philipp was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,227,112 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 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. Philipp has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Philipp around the world

Where Philipp 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
    #4,271
    in 2024
  • France
    1902–2002
    #3,067
    in 2002
  • Canada
    1991–2020
    #2,570
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1962–1996
    #540
    in 1996

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.

Philipp by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,399
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 6,863
Best rank ever
#2,106
1967
Peak year
1997
25 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
986
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Philipp

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

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Sibling names for Philipp

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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