Philip

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Philipp ( Greek : Φίλιππος Philippos , Latinized : Philippus ) is a male given name , which is also used as a family name.

Origin and meaning of the name

The name comes from the Greek φίλιππος Phílippos "horse friend" (φίλος philos "friend", ἱππος hippos "horse"). It comes from the Macedonian kings from ancient Greece , who equipped a cavalry and thus became friends of horses . Until the High Middle Ages, the name was completely uncommon in Western Europe and only common in Byzantium and Orthodox countries. Its introduction in Western Europe goes to the Russian princess , Anne of Kiev back by marrying I. Heinrich Queen of France was. She gave this name to her son, who later became King Philip I , whose popularity among the people contributed to the spread of the name Philip.

distribution

In the first half of the 20th century the name Philipp was rarely used in Germany. From the early 1960s onwards, more and more boys were called that. From the end of the 1980s to the turn of the millennium, the name was often among the ten most frequently given first names each year. Since then, its popularity has decreased somewhat.

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  • Udo Philipp (* 1964), German manager, political official and politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens)
  • Ulli Philipp (* 1943), Austrian actress
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See also:

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Variants of the spelling

  • German: Philipp; old short form lips
  • English: Philip; in the USA also often Phillip
  • English short form and nickname: Phil
  • French: Philippe
  • Greek: Philippos
  • Italian: Filippo
  • Italian shorthand and nickname: Pippo, Lippo
  • Dutch: Filip , Philip, Filips, Philips, Filippus, Philippus, Flip,
  • Lower Sorbian: Pilip, Pilop
  • Lower Sorbian short forms: Pila, Pilo, Pipo
  • Spanish: Felipe
  • Catalan: Felip
  • Portuguese: Filipe ; also Felipe
  • Hungarian: Fülöp
  • Japanese: Firip
  • Romansh: Filip, Felp
  • Russian: Филипп (Filipp)
  • Polish: Filip
  • Albanian / Bosnian / Bulgarian / Croatian / Macedonian / Montenegrin / Serbian: Filip (Филип)
  • Czech: Filip
  • Ukrainian: Пилип (Pylyp)
  • Finnish: Filip

Other variants

  • Male: Phillip, Phillipp, Filip, Vilppu, Philla, Pille
  • Female: Philippa , Philippe, Philippina, Philippine, Phillis

Short forms

  • Male: Fips; Fipsia; Phip; Fip; Phelp; Phipsia; Pinball machine; Phil; Fifie

Derived place names

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Statistics on "Popular first names"
  2. ↑ a b Ernst Mucke: Dictionary of the Dutch language and its dialects . tape 3 , ISBN 978-3-7420-2093-2 , pp. 84 .

swell

  • Hans Bahlow - German Name Lexicon. Family and first names explained according to their origin and meaning. , Gondrom, Bindlach 1990, ISBN 3-8112-0294-4
  • Günther Drosdowski - Duden Lexicon of First Names: Origin, Meaning and Use of several thousand first names , Bibliographisches Institut (Dudenverlag), Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1974
  • Margit Eberhard-Wabnitz & Horst Leisering - Knaur's first name book -, Droemersche Verlagsanstalt 1985, ISBN 3-426-26189-8

Web links

Wiktionary: Philipp  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations