Filip vs Filippo

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Filip Filippo

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 68 years in which either name was published, Filip for 43 years and Filippo for 25 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

• 1915–1918 Filippo ahead
• 1953–1954 Filip ahead
• 1958–1964 Filippo ahead
• 1965 Filip ahead
• 1966–1984 Filippo ahead
• 1985–1989 Filip ahead
• 1990 Filippo ahead
• 1991–2025 Filip ahead

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Filippos alive today are over 26; half the Filips are over 15. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Filip Illinois (9.3×), New Jersey (4.1×), New York (3.0×)
• Filippo New York (9.4×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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