# Felipe (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/felipe/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Portuguese |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /fəˈliːpeɪ/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 31,958 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 31,825 / 133 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 294, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese and Spanish Felipe.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 7 | 8,308 |
| 1981 | 6 | 9,462 |
| 1982 | 5 | 11,008 |
| 1983 | 7 | 8,310 |
| 1984 | 8 | 7,610 |
| 1985 | 5 | 11,201 |
| 1986 | 9 | 7,310 |
| 1987 | 5 | 11,890 |
| 1989 | 10 | 7,624 |
| 1991 | 6 | 11,984 |
| 1993 | 12 | 7,176 |
| 1994 | 7 | 10,938 |
| 1996 | 7 | 10,952 |
| 1998 | 6 | 12,970 |
| 2007 | 5 | 18,544 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 358 | 658 |
| 2012 | 349 | 678 |
| 2013 | 322 | 725 |
| 2014 | 336 | 719 |
| 2015 | 293 | 799 |
| 2016 | 305 | 780 |
| 2017 | 301 | 779 |
| 2018 | 287 | 791 |
| 2019 | 281 | 812 |
| 2020 | 259 | 872 |
| 2021 | 264 | 877 |
| 2022 | 286 | 851 |
| 2023 | 274 | 866 |
| 2024 | 251 | 924 |
| 2025 | 244 | 955 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 18 | 1,344 |
| 2011 | 12 | 1,788 |
| 2012 | 12 | 1,852 |
| 2013 | 11 | 1,920 |
| 2014 | 13 | 1,721 |
| 2015 | 8 | 2,483 |
| 2016 | 9 | 2,335 |
| 2017 | 17 | 1,470 |
| 2018 | 9 | 2,259 |
| 2019 | 11 | 1,986 |
| 2020 | 21 | 1,230 |
| 2021 | 6 | 3,017 |
| 2022 | 12 | 1,879 |
| 2023 | 8 | 2,546 |
| 2024 | 12 | 1,951 |

## People named Felipe

- Felipe Massa, Brazilian race car driver
- Felipe Melo, Brazilian association football player
- Felipe Anderson, Brazilian association football player
- Felipe Caicedo, Ecuadorian footballer
- Felipe Augusto de Almeida Monteiro, Brazilian footballer
- Felipe Santana, Brazilian footballer
- Felipe Gutiérrez, Chilean footballer
- Felipe Mattioni, Brazilian footballer
- Felipe Félix, Brazilian association football player
- Felipe Kitadai, Brazilian judoka
- Felipe Drugovich, Brazilian racing driver
- Felipe Vizeu, Brazilian association football player (born 1997)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.