Filipina
Just 111 women in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met a Filipina. It comes from Latin and means "lover of horses", the feminine side of Filip.
Filipina Pronunciation
Filipina is pronounced fee-lee-PEE-nah (/filiˈpina/).
What Filipina means
Where Filipina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Filipina reaches Polish through Latin, which borrowed the name from the Greek Philippos. Break that word open and you find philos, a lover, joined to hippos, a horse. The sense that follows the name everywhere is lover of horses.
It began as a man's name. The masculine Filip stayed common in Poland, and it still turns up in school registers across the country. The feminine line kept a closer variant too, Filippa, which holds the doubled letter of the Latin spelling.
Picture the name on a form at the urząd, written in full where a shorter one would leave the line half empty. The clerk copies Filipina without reading the old Greek inside it. That reading stays there anyway: philos and hippos, a lover of horses.
When Filipina celebrates name day
Filipina appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 18 November.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Filipina
1 in 203098 women in Poland is named Filipina. 111 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3234 among female names.
Filipina's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Filipina as a middle name
Filipina is a first name for 111 women in Poland and a middle name for another 184, a 38/62 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 500th, between Jana (185) and Ksymena (184).
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#498 Cyryla185
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#499 Jana185
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#500 Filipina184
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#501 Ksymena184
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#502 Jacqueline183