Filipe
Just over 100 Poles carry it, every one of them a man: most people here have never met a Filipe. A Greek name at root, a form of Filip, from the words for "lover of horses".
Filipe Pronunciation
Filipe is pronounced fee-LEE-pe (/fiˈlipɛ/).
What Filipe means
Where Filipe comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Filipe grows from the Greek Philippos, a compound of philos, loving, and hippos, horse. The literal meaning is lover of horses, in Polish miłośnik koni. In the Greek world a horse signalled wealth and cavalry rank, so the name once pointed to the well-born.
Polish trims it to Filip, the form a teacher reads down the class register. The feminine Filipina carries the same two roots toward a daughter. The root is Greek.
History gives the name a famous bearer. Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander, wore the older form Philippos, and his name already meant lover of horses. The sense never left. Whether a child is entered as Filip, Filipina, or the ancient Philippos, the horse stays folded into the Greek.
How many people are named Filipe
1 in 201379 men in Poland is named Filipe. 106 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3313 among male names.
Filipe's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Filipe as a middle name
Filipe is a first name for 106 men in Poland and a middle name for another 271, a 28/72 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 430th, between Augusto (272) and Raj (271).
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#428 Elias273
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#429 Augusto272
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#430 Filipe271
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#431 Raj271
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#432 Lukasz269