Felipe

Where Felipe comes from

Borrowed from Portuguese and Spanish Felipe.
— Wiktionary's entry for Felipe
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #682 among boys — 8 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1968
    Felipe VI of Spain born
    King of Spain since 2014
  3. 1981
    Felipe Massa born
    Brazilian race car driver
  4. 1981
    Peak, #373
    471 babies named Felipe — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Portuguese or Spanish, equivalent to English Philip.
Namesakes
  • Felipe VI of Spain · King of Spain since 2014, born 1968
  • Felipe Massa · Brazilian race car driver, born 1981
  • Felipe González · Prime Minister of Spain from 1982 to 1996, born 1942
  • Felipe Melo · Brazilian association football player, born 1983
  • Felipe Anderson · Brazilian association football player, born 1993

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.