Filipp
Barely 136 men in Poland carry it, so most people here will never meet one. It's the Russian spelling of Filip, from a Greek name meaning "lover of horses".
Filipp Pronunciation
What Filipp means
Where Filipp comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Filipp comes from the Greek Philippos, built from philos, meaning loving, and hippos, the horse. The literal sense is a friend of horses. In Polish that reads as miłośnik koni. The doubled p marks the Russian spelling, Филипп, standing a little apart from the plain Polish variant Filip.
In Russia the name has deep history. Filipp Kolychev became Metropolitan of Moscow in 1566 and opposed Ivan the Terrible, a stand that cost him his life and later his canonisation. Centuries afterward the singer Filipp Kirkorov put the same name on the radio for decades. The horse sense had settled back into the Greek roots long before either man was born.
On a Polish school register, Filipp with two p's sits one keystroke from a row of Filips. The spelling points east, back to Филипп and its old promise of a lover of horses.
How many people are named Filipp
1 in 156957 men in Poland is named Filipp. 136 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2830 among male names.
Filipp's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Filipp as a middle name
Filipp is a first name for 136 men in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 98/2 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 6247th, between Fethi (3) and Fillip (3).
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