Felipe
Felipe reached its high-water mark in 2001 at number 417, and has been recorded 31,958 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 955th. About 26,000 Felipes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 31.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Felipe boys named Felipe
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 31,958
- Estimated living today
- 26,000
- Median age today
- 31
- Peak year
- 2001
- Best rank
- 417th
- Rank in 2025
- 955th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 133 / 31,825
How old the living Felipes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 31,958 babies given the name since 1880, about 26,000 are alive — 83 in every hundred. Roughly 5,800 of them are children and 2,200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1994 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Portuguese, Spanish
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Felipes
- Felipe VI of Spain (born 1968)King of Spain since 2014
- Felipe Massa (born 1981)Brazilian race car driver
- Felipe González (born 1942)Prime Minister of Spain from 1982 to 1996
- Felipe Melo (born 1983)Brazilian association football player
- Felipe Anderson (born 1993)Brazilian association football player
- Felipe Caicedo (born 1988)Ecuadorian footballer
- Felipe Baloy (born 1981)Panamanian footballer
- Felipe Nasr (born 1992)Brazilian racing driver
People named Felipe with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Felipe is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Felipe is most concentrated in New Mexico (5.1×), Texas (4.6×), California (3.0×), Arizona (2.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2001
The most popular boys’ names the year Felipe peaked:
Felipe elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Felipe +2 spellings | 925 | 401st |
| Italy boys | Felipe | 305 | — |
| England and Wales boys | Felipe | 294 | 1,230th |
| Switzerland boys | Felipe | 182 | 529th |
| Belgium boys | Felipe | 22 | 1,121st |
| Ireland boys | Felipe | 21 | 604th |
| Poland boys | Felipe | 16 birth registrations | 507th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Felipe: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Felipe | 115 | 0.009% | 457th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Felipe | 55 | 0.013% | 239th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Felipe | 12 | 0.018% | 125th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Felipe is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.03% of children were given it – 29 of them.
Felipe: rank by region
In 2023, Felipe was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Podkarpackie | Felipe | 167 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Felipe by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 12 | 443rd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Felipe among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Felipe | 39 | 105 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Felipe lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 37,771 men called Felipe were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cáceres | Felipe | 847 | 4.406 | 52 |
| Zamora | Felipe | 360 | 4.391 | 52 |
| Ciudad Real | Felipe | 850 | 3.462 | 62 |
| Ávila | Felipe | 254 | 3.145 | 68 |
| Salamanca | Felipe | 496 | 3.117 | 67 |
| Segovia | Felipe | 237 | 2.984 | 69 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Felipe against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.