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Filip

From the Greek for "friend of horses". You almost certainly know a Filip: the name still sits inside Poland's top 100 for boys, though parents give it a little less each year now than they did at its 2010s peak.

Filip Pronunciation

Filip is pronounced FEE-leep (/ˈfilip/).

Related names
Filippa Filipina
Alive in 2025
173,805
Newborns 2025
2,663
National rank
#83
Next name day
11 April
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What Filip means

Where Filip comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Filip comes from the Greek Philippos, built from philos, loving or friendly, and hippos, horse. So the meaning holds plainly: friend of horses, or in Polish miłośnik koni. In a world where horses meant rank and wealth, such a name marked its bearer as noble company.

The most famous early Filip was Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great, a king who did in fact breed and prize warhorses. The apostle Philip carried the name into Christian Europe, and that is how it reached Polish churches and calendars.

In Poland the variant Phillip shows up mostly in emigrant records and English spellings. Filip stays the home form. Read a school register today and you will find several of them in one class. The name-day falls on the third of May among other dates. Whatever else shifts, the root stays fixed: philos and hippos, a friend of horses.

When Filip celebrates name day

Filip appears 14 times in the Polish name day calendar, 6 of them as a main name, the first on 11 April.

Next name day
11 April
Sunday in 2027
Next one in 168 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

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 Filip

1 in 123 men in Poland is named Filip. 173,805 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #83 among male names.

People with the name Filip 2019 → 2025
173,805 +26,049 since 2019
2020 151,153 +3,397
2021 156,930 +5,777
2022 162,071 +5,141
2023 166,708 +4,637
2024 170,474 +3,766
2025 173,805 +3,331

Filip's popularity over time

2,663 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #21 among newborns. It has been stable for a decade.

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2,663 newborns with the name Filip in 2025
national rank #21 that year

Where parents choose Filip

Filip is most popular in Silesian, 21% above the national average (3,812 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Opole (+14%) and Subcarpathian (+11%). It is least common in Pomeranian and Greater Poland, 14% and 13% below average respectively.

Chosen most
  • Silesian
    +21%
    1 in 60 babies
  • Opole
    +14%
    1 in 64 babies
  • Subcarpathian
    +11%
    1 in 65 babies
Chosen least
  • Pomeranian
    −14%
    1 in 84 babies
  • Greater Poland
    −13%
    1 in 83 babies
  • Masovian
    −9%
    1 in 80 babies

Filip as a middle name

Filip is a first name for 173,805 men in Poland and a middle name for another 33,718, an 84/16 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 70th, between Bogusław (34,860) and Adrian (33,341).

As a first name
173,805
As a middle name
33,718
first name 84% middle name 16%
Middle-name ranking men

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