Philip
At the 2020 census, 6,790 Americans bore the surname Philip — 5,009th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 44,000.
By the numbers
- People
- 6,790
- Rank
- 5,009th
- How common
- 1 in 44,000
- Per 100,000
- 2.3
Where the name comes from
Origin a patronymic
From Middle English Philip, ultimately from Ancient Greek Φίλιππος, name of ancient kings of Macedonia, from φίλιππος (“fond of horses”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Philip described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Philip
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921–2021)consort of Elizabeth II from 1952 to 2021
- Asha Philip (born 1990)British sprinter
- Philip, Prince of Eulenburg (1847–1921)German politician, diplomat, composer, and writer
- Philip, Hereditary Prince of Serbia (born 1982)second son of Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia, and Princess Maria da Glória, Duchess of Segorbe
- Danny Philip (born 1953)Prime Minister of Solomon Islands
- Philip, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (1779–1846)Austrian general and Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg
People named Philip with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Philip
Also a first name
Philip has been given to 345,173 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1953. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.