Philip

Where Philip comes from

From Middle English Philip, ultimately from Ancient Greek Φίλιππος (Phílippos), name of ancient kings of Macedonia, from φίλιππος (phílippos, “fond of horses”), from φιλέω (philéō, “to love”) + ἵππος (híppos, “horse”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Philip
  • Ancient Greek
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #81 among boys — 186 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1928
    Philip K. Dick born
    American science fiction author
  3. 1941
    Peak, #52
    4,166 babies named Philip — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1967
    Philip Seymour Hoffman born
    American actor
  5. 1994
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #168.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Ancient Greek.
Namesakes
  • Philip K. Dick · American science fiction author, 1928–1982
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman · American actor, 1967–2014
  • Philip Roth · American novelist, 1933–2018
  • Philip Pullman · English author, born 1946
  • Philip W. Anderson · American physicist, 1923–2020

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.