Philippa
About 1,815 American babies have been named Philippa since 1910, most of them around 2022. In 2025 it ranked 2,778th. About 1,600 Philippas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 12.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Philippa
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,815
- Estimated living today
- 1,600
- Median age today
- 12
- Peak year
- 2022
- Best rank
- 2,425th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,778th
- First recorded
- 1910
How old the living Philippas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,815 babies given the name since 1910, about 1,600 are alive — 87 in every hundred. Roughly 990 of them are children and 150 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2013 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 Ancient Greek
A Latinate feminine form of Philip, recorded in medieval England, but originally pronounced like the masculine form.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Philippas
- Philippa of Hainault (1310–1369)queen consort of King Edward III of England
- Philippa of Lancaster (1360–1415)English noblewoman and Portuguese queen consort
- Philippa Foot (1920–2010)English philosopher
- Philippa of England (1394–1430)Queen Consort of Sweden, Norway and Denmark, Royal Princess of England
- Philippa Gregory (born 1954)English novelist
- Philippa Boyens (born 1963)New Zealand screenwriter
- Philippa, Countess of Toulouse (died 1118)Duchess of Aquitaine
- Philippa Marrack (born 1945)United States-based English biologist and immunologist
People named Philippa with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Philippa is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Philippa is most concentrated in New York (5.1×), Virginia (3.3×), California (3.1×), Texas (0.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2022
The most popular girls’ names the year Philippa peaked:
Philippa elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Philippa | 4,574 | 150th |
| New Zealand girls | Philippa | 1,359 | 72nd |
| France girls | Philippa | 565 | 659th |
| Scotland girls | Philippa | 394 | 239th |
| Ireland girls | Philippa | 256 | 298th |
| Belgium girls | Philippa | 221 | 256th |
| Switzerland girls | Philippa | 170 | 461st |
| Northern Ireland girls | Philippa | 37 | 284th |
| Poland girls | Philippa | 2 birth registrations | 729th |
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.
Philippa: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Philippa | 134 | 0.011% | 346th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Philippa | 34 | 0.008% | 314th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Philippa | 2 | 0.003% | 161st |
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, Philippa is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.02% of children were given it – 72 of them.
Philippa: rank by region
In 2025, Philippa was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Philippa | 156 | 36 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Philippa appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (89th), Province of Limburg (138th), Province of West Flanders (138th) and Province of Flemish Brabant (193rd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 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.
Philippa by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 73 | 153rd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Philippa 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 girls | Philippa | 21 | 49 |
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.
Related names
Philippa 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.