Filipa
Only 25 women in Poland carry it, and no girls have been given it since at least 2000: most Poles will never meet a Filipa. The name comes from Greek, the feminine of Filip, and means "friend of horses".
Filipa Pronunciation
Filipa is pronounced fee-LEE-pah (/fiˈlipa/).
What Filipa means
Where Filipa comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Filipa comes from the Greek Philippos, a compound of philos, loving, and hippos, horse. The literal sense is friend of horses, which in Polish becomes miłośniczka koni. In a world where a horse meant wealth and cavalry, the name marked standing.
The male form Filip reached history first. Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great, is its best documented bearer, a king remembered from every schoolbook. The feminine line runs through Philippa, the Latinized variant, and settles in Polish as Filipa.
A girl named Filipa may never sit on a horse. The meaning survives anyway. It sits inside the Greek roots, waiting. On her imieniny she shares the day with the Filips in the class register, the same word turned toward a girl: philos and hippos, friend of horses.
When Filipa celebrates name day
Filipa appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 20 September.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
How many people are named Filipa
1 in 901753 women in Poland is named Filipa. 25 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8521 among female names.
Filipa as a middle name
Filipa is a first name for 25 women in Poland and a middle name for another 64, a 28/72 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 850th, between Alberta (64) and Fortunata (64).
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#848 Trang65
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#849 Alberta64
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#850 Filipa64
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#851 Fortunata64
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#852 Gertrud64