Philippe
Philippe is a boy's name that peaked in 1979, when it was the 1,177th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 6,143rd. About 2,500 Philippes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 41.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Philippe
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,043
- Estimated living today
- 2,500
- Median age today
- 41
- Peak year
- 1979
- Best rank
- 1,177th
- Rank in 2025
- 6,143rd
- First recorded
- 1914
How old the living Philippes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,043 babies given the name since 1914, about 2,500 are alive — 81 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1984 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.
Notable Philippes
- Philippe Pétain (1856–1951)French military and political leader
- Philippe of Belgium (born 1960)King of the Belgians since 2013
- Philippe Coutinho (born 1992)Brazilian association football player
- Philippe Noiret (1930–2006)French actor
- Philippe Mexès (born 1982)French footballer
- Philippe Senderos (born 1985)Swiss footballer
- Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (1640–1701)French prince
- Philippe Gilbert (born 1982)Belgian cyclist
People named Philippe with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Philippe is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Philippe is most concentrated in New York (5.9×), Maine (4.8×), Massachusetts (4.4×), Florida (3.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1979
The most popular boys’ names the year Philippe peaked:
Philippe elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Philippe | 538,770 | 1st |
| Belgium boys | Philippe | 627 | 169th |
| Switzerland boys | Philippe | 478 | 135th |
| France girls | Philippe | 275 | 806th |
| England and Wales boys | Philippe | 139 | 1,485th |
| Poland boys | Philippe | 76 birth registrations | 352nd |
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.
Philippe: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Philippe | 257 | 0.021% | 136th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Philippe | 211 | 0.048% | 80th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Philippe | 10 | 0.015% | 116th |
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, Philippe is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.07% of children were given it – 70 of them.
Philippe: rank by region
In 2022, Philippe was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Philippe | 498 | 5 |
In 2024, Philippe was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Philippe | 8 | 1 |
In 2019, Philippe was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Philippe | 136 | 2 |
In 2018, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Philippe appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (331st).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, 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.
Philippe 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Philippe | 928 | 2,273 |
| Finland boys | Philippe | 50 | 118 |
| the Netherlands girls | Philippe | — | 44 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, 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 Philippe lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 478 men called Philippe 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girona | Philippe | 26 | 0.062 | 1,044 |
| Balears, Illes | Philippe | 35 | 0.056 | 1,087 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Philippe | 43 | 0.043 | 1,495 |
| Málaga | Philippe | 33 | 0.038 | 1,349 |
| Tarragona | Philippe | 15 | 0.034 | 1,601 |
| Barcelona | Philippe | 90 | 0.031 | 1,651 |
Listed in 18 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 34 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Philippe 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.