Felipe: Meaning of Baby Name Felipe

About the Name Felipe

Felipe is the Spanish form of Philip, a name rooted in the ancient Greek Philippos, composed of philos, meaning "loving" or "fond," and hippos, meaning "horse." The combined sense — lover of horses — reflected the enormous prestige that horsemanship held in the ancient world, where mastery of horses was inseparable from military power and aristocratic identity. The name was borne by Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great, and by multiple kings of Spain — most notably the Habsburg monarchs Felipe I through Felipe VI — giving it a royal pedigree that extends across both ancient Greek and modern European history. In the Spanish-speaking world, Felipe carries the full weight of that centuries-long royal and ecclesiastical tradition.

Felipe entered the US Social Security top-1000 in 2000, peaking the following year at #417, and has remained continuously on the chart ever since, a twenty-five-year run that reflects the consistent presence of Spanish-speaking communities in the United States. Recent figures show a stable presence at the lower end of the chart: #924 in 2024 with 250 boys, #865 in 2023, and #851 in 2022. More than 10,100 boys have been named Felipe within the SSA top-1000 era. Variants include Felippe, the Portuguese Filippo, and the shortened Italian Lippo, offering a range of Romance-language forms for families who want to honor the name's Iberian roots while leaving room for personal styling.

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.

Quick Facts About Felipe

957

Spanish baby names in our dictionary

398

Spanish male names

158

6-letter F-names in our dictionary

338

F-male names total

2000–2025

years of US SSA records (26 total)

10,413

total US births named Felipe (all years)

US Popularity History (2000–2025)

📉 Falling fast: Felipe dropped 83 places in the US boys ranking over the last 5 years (#872 in 2020 → #955 in 2025).

Annual US births named Felipe by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2001 with 602 boys named Felipe (boy rank #417 that year).

Where it stands today: in 2025, ranked #955 for boys (244 US births). That's 538 places below its 2001 peak.

Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.

Where in the US Is Felipe Most Popular?

Average boy-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's boys-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Felipe the strongest states are Florida, Texas, California.

Strongest boys-name states

#	State	Avg rank	Births
1	Florida	#434	373
2	Texas	#544	506
3	California	#575	480
4	Massachusetts	#638	49
5	Colorado	#663	22
6	Arizona	#678	62
7	Washington	#813	36
8	Illinois	#832	73
9	Tennessee	#833	29
10	New York	#854	77

Weakest boys-name states

#	State	Avg rank	Births
1	Georgia	#897	28
2	New Jersey	#871	48
3	Virginia	#870	34
4	New York	#854	77
5	Tennessee	#833	29
6	Illinois	#832	73
7	Washington	#813	36
8	Arizona	#678	62
9	Colorado	#663	22
10	Massachusetts	#638	49

Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Felipe in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.

Variant Forms

Name	Meaning	Gender	Origin
Felippe	Variant Of Philip.	Male	Spanish
Filippo	Lover Of Horses	Male	Greek
Lippo	Legend Name	Male	Finnish

Looking for names like Felipe?

A dedicated page with 60+ related names — spelling variants, rhymes, alliterations, same-origin matches, and shared meaning concepts — lives at its own URL so each kind of similarity gets a deeper treatment than fits here.

See all names like Felipe →

Compare Felipe to Other Popular Names

Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Felipe against today's most popular boys-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).

Felipe vs Liam 239,320 births since 2014

Felipe vs Noah 230,181 births since 2014

Felipe vs Oliver 164,076 births since 2014

Felipe vs William 159,918 births since 2014

Felipe vs James 157,850 births since 2014

Felipe vs Elijah 153,351 births since 2014

Felipe vs Benjamin 147,449 births since 2014

Felipe vs Lucas 141,302 births since 2014

Compare to a different name →