Filippa
Filippa was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,763 among girls’ names; 153 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Filippa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Filippa mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Filippa is “a female given name”
Cognate with English Philippa.
/fɪ²lɪpa/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Filippa?
#13,763 among girls’ names, 2025
Filippa entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #13,763 in 2025.
10 babies in 2020, the peak
Filippa peaked in 2020, when 10 girls were given it, #9,786 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 60% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,763 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,591 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,639 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,054 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,786 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,709 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,387 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,174 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,157 | 5.1 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,213 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 6 | #15,240 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,742 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,601 | 3.4 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,369 | 5.2 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,360 | 4.0 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,110 | 5.8 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,783 | 6.7 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,427 | 7.5 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,578 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,485 | 5.2 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,275 | 5.5 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,830 | 6.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Filippa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Filippa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Filippa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Filippa, and how old are they?
An estimated 93 Americans named Filippa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 307 people named Filippa (307 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 58 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,968 babies since 1880, Filippa is the second most given (7.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 67 babies (9.0%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Filippa and names like it
- Compare Filippa and PhilippaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sFilippa peaked in 2020.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Filippa since 1910.
- Swedish namesWiktionary’s origin for Filippa: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Filippa.
- Names starting with FMost given first.