girls:
133 births since 1926
#5583 (2nd percentile)
boys:
31.3k births since 1880
#652 (86th percentile)
overall:
31.5k births since 1880
#1433 (81st percentile)
The name Felipe is the #1,433 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 31,457 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 81.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 81.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #652 (85.8% percentile) for all time with 31,324 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,583 (2.3% percentile) for all time with 133 births since 1926.
Felipe has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1926 for girls). Birth data for Felipe is available in 138 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (138 years for boys and 20 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Felipe has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Felipe reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 52.7% percentile (ranked #391) with 291 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 291 births per million (ranked 52.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Felipe ranks #646 for boys (29.1% percentile) with 149 births per million, which is 51.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Felipe reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #816) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2007.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Felipe".
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Our model has identified 18 different pronunciations for the name Felipe. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 23.5% confident that Felipe is pronounced as fuh-LEEP, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is feh-LEE-pay, at 15.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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