Felipe

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Filippo in IT Italy, SE Sweden, NL Netherlands and 1 more, Philip in GB United Kingdom, IN India, GT Guatemala and 1 more, Filipe in PT Portugal, CH Switzerland, AO Angola and Philippus in CR Costa Rica.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Felipe is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name1.1M records spelled Felipe26 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Venezuela, Ecuador

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Félipe, Felipé, Fěľîpê, Fëlïpë, Felípe

• Catalan given name71K records spelled Felipe16 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, France, United States, Belgium

  Languages: Catalan, French

  Also written Félipé, Félipe, Felipé, Fêlipe, Felipè

• a separate given name60K records spelled Felipe3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Spain, United Kingdom

  Also written Félipe, Felipé

• Lao given name17K records spelled Felipe7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Laos, United States, Chile, Thailand

  Languages: Lao, Thai

  Also written Félípé, F'Elipe, Fëlïpë, Felipé, Felipê

• Arabic given name16K records spelled Felipe8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Spain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia

  Languages: Arabic, Amharic, Maltese

  Also written Félipe, F̷e̷l̷i̷p̷e̷, Fëlïpë, Fèlìpè

• Indonesian given name5.7K records spelled Felipe4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Indonesia, Philippines, Spain

  Also written Fêlīpē, Fëlipë, Felïpe

• Danish given name5.0K records spelled Felipe8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States, Spain

  Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

  Also written Felipé, Fëlïpë

61 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Felipe is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Portuguese, a male given name of Brazilian usage, variant of Filipe, equivalent to English Philip

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Spanish, Philip (biblical apostle)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Swedish, Se Filip.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In French, Forme espagnole de Philippe, grec philos + hippos « ami des chevaux ».

  as a name·Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

• Spanish form of PHILIP .

  as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 140 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Philip II of Spainb. 1527ESnot in their usual nameKing of Spain, Portugal, Naples and Sicily; King consort of England, lived 1527-1598
• Philip III of Spainb. 1578ESnot in their usual nameKing of Castilla and León and King of Aragon and Portugal (1578-1621)
• Philip IV of Spainb. 1605ESnot in their usual nameKing of Spain and Portugal (1605-1665)
• Felipe Vb. 1683FRKing of Spain from 1700 to 1746 (1683–1746)
• Santiago Ramón y Cajalb. 1852ESnot in their usual nameSpanish scientist (1852-1934)
• Javier Pérez de Cuéllarb. 1920PEnot in their usual name5th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1920-2020)
• Felipe Gonzálezb. 1942ESPrime Minister of Spain from 1982 to 1996
• FCHb. 1962MXnot in their usual name63th President of Mexico
• Felipe VI of Spainb. 1968ESKing of Spain since 2014
• Felipe Melob. 1983BRBrazilian association football player

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,009 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Felipe?

We estimate roughly 993 thousand people bear Felipe (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Felipe have the most bearers?

Felipe is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled felipe.

How common is Felipe compared with other names?

In Argentina, Felipe is the 219th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

Is Felipe a male or female name?

Felipe is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Felipe mean?

Recorded meaning: Spanish form of Philip, from Greek 'lover of horses'