Filip

Filip (Cyrillic : Филип) is a masculine given name and a surname, cognate to Philip.

The male name Filip comes from the Greek "philos" (love) and "hippos" (horse), which means "horse lover". ^{[1] [2]}

In Croatia, the name Filip was among the most common masculine given names in the 2000s. ^[3]

Notable people with the name include:

Given name

• Filip Barović (born 1990), Montenegrin basketball player
• Filip Bergmark (born 1995), Swedish ice hockey player
• Filip David (1940–2025), Serbian writer and screenwriter
• Filip Đorđević (born 1987), Serbian footballer
• Filip Ekberg (born 2007), Swedish ice hockey player
• Filip Filipović (politician) (1878–1938), Serbian communist politician
• Filip Filipović (American football) (born 1977), American football player of Serbian descent
• Filip Filipović (water polo) (born 1987), Serbian water polo player
• Filip Hološko (born 1984), Slovak footballer
• Filip Cristian Jianu (born 2001), Romanian tennis player
• Filip Marković (born 1992), Serbian footballer
• Filip Minařík (1975–2023), Czech jockey
• Filip Mișea (1873–1944), Aromanian activist, physician and politician
• Filip Noga, Albanian politician
• Filip Petrušev (born 2000), Serbian basketball player
• Filip Pravdica (born 1995), Croatian long jumper
• Filip Stanković (born 2002), Serbian footballer
• Filip Ugran (born 2002), Romanian race car driver
• Filip Verlinden (born 1982), Belgian kickboxer
• Filip Višnjić (1757–1834), Bosnian Serb poet and guslar
• Filip Zubčić (born 1993), Croatian alpine skier

Surname

• Miroslav Filip (1928–2009), Czech chess grandmaster
• Ota Filip (1930–2018), Czech and German novelist, essayist, journalist
• Pavel Filip (born 1966), Moldovan politician
• Petru Filip (born 1955), Romanian politician
• Simion Filip (fl. 21st c.), Romanian and Moldovan mathematician

See also

• Filip (film)
• All pages with titles beginning with Filip
• All pages with titles containing Filip

References

1. "Najljepša imena za zimske bebe". www.index.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 2024-12-26.
2. Čilaš Šimpraga. Ivšić Majić and Vidović. Rječnik 500 najčešćih suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena (in Croatian). Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje. p. 26.
3. "Most frequent male and female given names by year of birth, 2011 Census". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. December 2012.