Filipa
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Filipa is a given name, most frequently recorded in Portugal, where it is the 54th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Philippa.
- PTPortugal1 in 269◐
- FRFrance1 in 108K
- ESSpain1 in 435K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.5K ●
- Sources
- 159 ●
- 1 in 12K ◐
across 12 countries
21K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Meaning & origin●
a female given name, equivalent to English Philippa
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PT Portugal | #54 | 31,197 | 12K rec. | — | listed | Filipa | 159 |
| FR France | — | 4,890 | 4.2K rec. | — | listed | Filipa | 159 |
| AR Argentina | — | 699 | 275 rec. | — | 61 | Filipa | 24 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 698 | 300 rec. | — | listed | Filipa | 75 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 481 | 274 rec. | — | — | Filipa | 44 |
| BR Brazil | — | 375 | 304 rec. | 1 in 565K | 375 | Filipa | 58 |
| PH Philippines | — | 353 | 355 rec. | — | — | Filipa | 4 |
| HR Croatia | — | 336 | — | 1 in 13K | 378 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 228 | 207 rec. | — | — | Filipa | 26 |
| US United States | — | 199 | 645 rec. | 1 in 1.7M | 199 | Filipa | 111 |
| AO Angola | #310 | 194 | 178 rec. | — | — | Filipa | 24 |
| CL Chile | — | 162 | 8 rec. | — | 10 | Filipa | 15 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Portuguese40K70%
- French5.2K9%
- English2.8K5%
- Spanish2.5K4%
- Croatian2.4K4%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 40,296 | 70% |
| French | 5,241 | 9% |
| English | 2,832 | 5% |
| Spanish | 2,548 | 4% |
| Croatian | 2,434 | 4% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Filipa is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Basque, ( Dv → A ). "Sorte de boisson des pauvres sur la côte de Saint-Jean-de-Luz" Dv .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2008 | 11 |
| 2009 | 11 |
| 2010 | 11 |
| 2011 | 11 |
| 2012 | 12 |
| 2013 | 13 |
| 2014 | 13 |
| 2015 | 13 |
| 2016 | 14 |
| 2017 | 15 |
| 2018 | 16 |
| 2019 | 16 |
| 2020 | 17 |
| 2021 | 17 |
| 2022 | 17 |
| 2023 | 16 |
| 2024 | 16 |
| 2025 | 14 |
SI SURS — resident population given names — 18 years between 2008–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Philippa of Armeniab. 1183not in their usual nameByzantine empress
- Filipa de Lencastreb. 1360GBEnglish noblewoman and Portuguese queen consort
- Felipa Moniz de Perestrellob. 1451PTnot in their usual namePortuguese noble
- Felipa de Souzab. 1556PTnot in their usual nameLuso-Brazilian activist
- Filipa Cavallerib. 1973PTPortuguese judoka
- Filipa Césarb. 1975PTPortuguese filmmaker
- Filipa Reisb. 1977PTPortuguese film director and producer
- Filipa Sousab. 1985PTPortuguese singer
- Filipa Azevedob. 1991PTPortuguese singer
- Filipa Areosab. 1992PTPortuguese film and television actress
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●
Attested in 51 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 378 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 375 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 373 | #16,327 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 336 | #902 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 278 | #11,199 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 253 | #21,940 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 199 | #37,052 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 144 | #6,050 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 121 | #7,486 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 115 | #14,160 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 90 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 87 | #1,788 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 194 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Filipa?
- We estimate roughly 1.5 thousand people bear Filipa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Filipa have the most bearers?
- Filipa is most frequently recorded in Portugal, where it is most often spelled filipa.
- How common is Filipa compared with other names?
- In Portugal, Filipa is the 54th most common given name of 19,429 given names recorded there.
- Is Filipa a male or female name?
- Filipa is a female 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 Filipa mean?
- Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Philippa
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Filipa” — the 54th most common given name in Portugal. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.