Pilip
Fewer than a hundred Polish men carry it, and most Poles have never met one. It's a rare form of Filip, from the Greek for "friend of horses".
Pilip Pronunciation
Pilip is pronounced PEE-leep (/ˈpilip/).
What Pilip means
Where Pilip comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Pilip comes from the Greek Philippos. The name joins philos, meaning friend, and hippos, the word for horse. Read straight, it means friend of horses, and Polish renders that as miłośnik koni. The horse sat close to power in the ancient world, and the name once marked someone of standing.
Most Polish families today reach for Filip, the smoother variant that shed the older second P. Pilip stays nearer the eastern Slavic forms still heard in Belarus and Ukraine. For a daughter, the same root gives Filipina.
Pilip is rare now. A teacher reading the class register meets it seldom, and when it appears there it sits beside a handful of Filips. The meaning holds for every one of them: friend of horses.
How many people are named Pilip
1 in 257183 men in Poland is named Pilip. 83 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3899 among male names.