Felipa

Where Felipa comes from

Felipa hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1720
    Felipa Maria Aranha born
    founder and leader of the Mola quilombo
  2. 1893
    First appearance
    #1,277 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1919
    Peak, #925
    58 babies named Felipa — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1936
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,480.
  5. 1975
    Felipa Palacios born
    female track and field athlete from Colombia
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Felipa Palacios · female track and field athlete from Colombia, born 1975
  • Felipa Maria Aranha · founder and leader of the Mola quilombo, 1720–1780
  • Felipa Hernandez Barragan · Mexican artist, 1914–2011
  • Felipa Niño Mas · Spanish historian, 1902–1992
  • Felipa Larrea · enslaved woman in Argentina, 1810–1910

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.