Filipe

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Filipe is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. In Portugal it is the 24th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Felipe; friend of horses; Faro; origin marked (P).

rarermore common
  • PTPortugal1 in 147◐
  • COColombia1 in 188
  • CLChile1 in 246

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈993K ●

across 12 countries

#149 ●

of 16M given names

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
402 ●

3.0M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 313 ◐

Brazil

Spellings & scripts●

FelipeLatin · Portuguese●9.8M records
ᲤილიპეGeorgian · Georgian●360 records
ФелипеCyrillic · Russian●95 records
ฟิลิปโปThai · Thai●31 records
필리포Hangul · Korean●0 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Felipe in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, MX Mexico and 11 more, Filippo in IT Italy, SE Sweden, NL Netherlands and 1 more, Philip in GB United Kingdom, IN India, GT Guatemala and 1 more 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●

Felipe; friend of horses; Faro; origin marked (P)

Sources 1

  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Filipe is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#219686,190396K rec.—3.9KFelipe138
BR Brazil#26676,680650K rec.1 in 313677KFelipe281
MX Mexico#89659,947591K rec.—1.6KFelipe223
CL Chile#41365,62046K rec.—597Felipe196
CO Colombia#26330,963102K rec.—34Felipe213
PE Peru#109266,642234K rec.——Felipe109
US United States#739222,839405K rec.1 in 1.5K223KFelipe402
VE Venezuela#144176,662103K rec.——Felipe91
PH Philippines#163117,565119K rec.——Felipe101
IT Italy#13665,83864K rec.—1.9KFilippo218
PT Portugal#2457,10826K rec.—listedFilipe209
ES Spain#13737,77189K rec.1 in 1.3K39KFelipe195

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Portuguese929K88%
  • English66K6%
  • French36K3%
  • Spanish6.4K1%
  • ptbr2.9K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese929,49188%
English66,0896%
French35,6873%
Spanish6,4171%
ptbr2,8671%

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◐

Filipe is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name82K records spelled Filipe10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Germany, Portugal

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Filipè, Fílípe, Fïlïpë, Filipé

  • French given name46K records spelled Filipe9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Portugal, Spain

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Filipé, Filipė, Fīlīpe, Fïlïpë, Filipë

  • a separate given name3.0K records spelled Filipe3 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Filipé, Fílipe

  • Hindi given name1.7K records spelled Filipe3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Spain, South Africa

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Fílipe

  • Danish given name1.1K records spelled Filipe6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States, Sweden

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

    Also written Filipé

57 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●

Filipe is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Portuguese, Philip, the apostle

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Spanish, variante de Felipe

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

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●

051015201980199020002010202017 · 1992

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Filipe in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1975–2025
Yearrecords
19757
19768
19777
19785
19796
198011
198113
198216
198310
19849
198512
19866
19875
198812
198911
199012
19918
199217
19938
19948
199511
199612
19978
19985
19999
200010
200114
200210
200312
20045
20059
200611
200715
200812
20097
201011
201110
201212
20136
20155
20167
20176
20188
201910
20237
20256

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 46 years between 1975–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1400160018002000Philip II of Spain, b. 1527Philip III of Spain, b. 1578Philip IV of Spain, b. 1605Manuel II of Portugal, b. 1889Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, b. 1948Filipe Nyusi, b. 1959Filipe Luís Kasmirski, b. 1985Rúben Amorim, b. 1985João Moutinho, b. 1986Andre Gomes, b. 1993
  • 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)
  • Manuel II of Portugalb. 1889PTnot in their usual nameKing of Portugal (1889–1932)
  • Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belob. 1948TLRoman Catholic bishop
  • Filipe Nyusib. 1959MZPresident of Mozambique, 2015-2025
  • Filipe Luís Kasmirskib. 1985BRBrazilian football coach and former association footballer
  • Rúben Amorimb. 1985PTnot in their usual namePortuguese professional football manager and former player
  • João Moutinhob. 1986PTnot in their usual namePortuguese association football player (born 1986)
  • Andre Gomesb. 1993PTnot in their usual namePortuguese association football player (born 1993)

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 69 sources across 31 countries.

Official registers attesting Filipe
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—62K#669
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202256K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—55K#527
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20182.5K#2,525
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20202.3K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.5K#9,229
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020426#52,580
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—363#527
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—350#2,503
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000347#55,376
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024291#4,487
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026291#461

Reference works 7

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 247 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Filipe?
We estimate roughly 993 thousand people bear Filipe (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Filipe have the most bearers?
Filipe is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled felipe.
How common is Filipe compared with other names?
In Argentina, Filipe is the 219th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Filipe a male or female name?
Filipe 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 Filipe mean?
Recorded meaning: Felipe; friend of horses; Faro; origin marked (P)
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Filipe” — the 219th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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