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.
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