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Philippe

#6,351 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Philip

Philippe has been given to 3,043 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #6,351 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1979, with 59 recorded.

Babies named Philippe, 2025

1 in 237,000

Philippe over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Philippe: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Philip

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Philippe means

Philippe is a form of Philip.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Philippe → Philip. The family’s meaning is “fond of horses”, recorded in English with the source elements phílippos.

Origin, language, and formation

Philippe is used in French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Philip.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Philippe is pronounced /fi.lip/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,043 boys were recorded with the name Philippe between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 59 in 1979; its best national rank was #1,033 in 1964.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,177 in 2020 to #6,351 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,662 in 2015 to #6,351 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 Philippe?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 122,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,351
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Philippe 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Philippe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Philippes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Philippe was born before 1979 — so the typical Philippe is around 46 today.

Median birth year
1979
About 46 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
16.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,635
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 16.9% of all recorded uses (513).

Is Philippe 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
+1,270
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,174
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,689
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.67×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
23.7%
Peak was 1979 (59)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,033
1964

Spellings of Philippe

Philippe is not the most common spelling — Philip is, with 98.7% against Philippe's 0.87%.

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 Philippe is used

Across 1910–2025, Philippe was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 70,867 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 25,000
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in 33,333
  3. 3Maine1 in 33,333
  4. 4California1 in 50,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 50,000
  6. 6Rhode Island1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Louisiana1 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. Philippe has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Philippe around the world

Where Philippe 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
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • France
    1900–2025
    #714
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #371
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1944–2008
    #726
    in 2008

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.

Notable people named Philippe

People whose public names include Philippe, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Philippe in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Philippe. Linked forms have their own page here.

FilipFelipeFilipeFilippPhilipFilippoPhilipePhilippPhillipFilipposFülöpFilipsPhylipFilippusPhilippus

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Philippe by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,351
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,174
Best rank ever
#1,033
1964
Peak year
1979
59 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,043
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Philippe

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

PhineasPhillippePhilemonPhinehasPhilippGiuseppePhillipsPhilbertPhillipePhinneasPhilmoreGuiseppePhiloPhilanderPhilopaterPhilPhilipePhilipposPhillPhilopateerPhillipPhillippPhilliphPhilip

Names with a curve like Philippe

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Philippe, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

RojelioCharltonRanceAnthoneyLamarrLavellEdmundoTeranceArnoldoReinaldoNorbertoAnibal

Sibling names for Philippe

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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