Philippines

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Philippines is a name, most frequently recorded in the United States. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: island nation. Pacific.

rarermore common
  • AUAustralia1 in 19K◐
  • CACanada1 in 98K
  • USUnited States1 in 747K

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

476K ●

in 5 countries

Sources
12 ●

64 records

Official registry-verified

Meaning & origin●

island nation. Pacific

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Philippines is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States6,97516 rec.——Philippines6
AU Australia3,0691 rec.——Philippines1
CA Canada2,2381 rec.——Philippines1
GB United Kingdom6010 rec.——Philippines1
DE Germany1135 rec.——Philippines4
AT Austria890 rec.——Philippines1
CH Switzerland660 rec.——Philippines1
NL Netherlands581 rec.——Philippines1
BE Belgium550 rec.——Philippines1
NZ New Zealand150 rec.——Philippines1
MU Mauritius100 rec.——Philippines1
ES Spain———listed——

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

Languages●

  • English13K2%
  • Spanish4.3K1%
  • Malay2.3K1%
  • Chinese1.9K1%
  • English (Philippines)1.7K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English12,9132%
Spanish4,2611%
Malay2,2611%
Chinese1,9231%
English (Philippines)1,6981%

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◐

Philippines is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name33 records spelled Philippines13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Malaysia, United States, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Malay

    Also written Filipina, Filipiña

  • Spanish given name29 records spelled Philippines5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Mexico, Spain, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Filipinas

  • French name26 records spelled Philippines3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Filipines

  • Spanish surname3 records spelled Philippines10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic

    Also written Filippini

12 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●

Philippines 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 French, Philippines (a country in Southeast Asia)

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

  • In English, An archipelago of Southeast Asia.

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

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.

Evidence●

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Philippines under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Philippines?
Our records include 476,229 bearers of Philippines across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
In which country does Philippines have the most bearers?
Philippines is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled philippines.
What does the name Philippines mean?
Recorded meaning: island nation. Pacific
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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, “Philippines”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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