# Philipp (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/philipp/  
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 | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 986 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 986 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 51, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 12 | 6,902 |
| 2012 | 15 | 5,912 |
| 2013 | 18 | 5,118 |
| 2014 | 14 | 6,225 |
| 2015 | 8 | 9,353 |
| 2016 | 15 | 5,983 |
| 2017 | 17 | 5,462 |
| 2018 | 16 | 5,721 |
| 2019 | 9 | 8,703 |
| 2020 | 13 | 6,540 |
| 2021 | 8 | 9,474 |
| 2022 | 8 | 9,623 |
| 2023 | 6 | 11,905 |
| 2024 | 9 | 8,814 |
| 2025 | 5 | 13,403 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 3 | 2,863 |
| 2002 | 7 | 1,799 |
| 2004 | 3 | 3,651 |
| 2007 | 5 | 3,095 |
| 2008 | 4 | 3,687 |
| 2009 | 4 | 3,744 |
| 2010 | 8 | 2,400 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4,685 |
| 2014 | 4 | 3,895 |
| 2017 | 3 | 4,812 |
| 2020 | 3 | 4,608 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,270 |

## People named Philipp

- Philipp Lahm, German association football player
- Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer (1714–1788)
- Philipp Otto Runge, German artist (1777-1810)
- Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist (1794-1868)
- Philipp Max, German footballer
- Philipp Lienhart, Austrian association football player (born 1996)
- Philipp Bouhler, German general, head of Nazi Action T4 euthanasia program for children and the handicapped
- Karl Philipp Moritz, German author, editor and essayist
- Philipp Frank, Austrian academic (*1884 – †1966)
- Philipp Ludwig von Seidel, German mathematician, optician and astronomer (1821-1896)
- Philipp Spitta, German musicologist (1841–1894)

## 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.