Philipp is a first name for boys.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Philipp in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Philipp in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Philipp by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Philipp ranks at #5,563. That means there are 5,562 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Philipp.
If your name is Philipp your parents may be very proud to let their son swim against the tide: The name Philipp has never ranked higher than position 1,741 in our statistics and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea to choose the name Philipp for their son. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1967 to give the name more often than usual – only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Philipp because that was several decades ago – unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in your neighborhood.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Philipp was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As in the last century, Philipp is still an exception. Even in 2022, the name was given very rarely - in fact, only 8 times in the entire USA. So a Philipp of 2022 will need very good binoculars to spot the next namesake of the same age.
Meeting a man or boy named Philipp is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Philipp can be found in only two: Florida and New York. No other state currently has residents named Philipp. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Philipp living in one state or another. (If your name is Philipp and you live outside of Florida or New York, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Philipp is in Florida, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Florida, only 0.00027% of all male residents are called Philipp – that’s just one in 369,650! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 25 men going by that name. So, if your name is Philipp, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter P is quite rare as an initial letter for boys' names: only 1.5% of all common boys' names in the US begin with P, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. But P is by no means the rarest initial. While X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D.
With seven letters, the name Philipp has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
From this follows that if 1.5% of all boys' names begin with a P, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Incidentally, of the comparatively few boys' names that begin with a P, Paul is currently the most common.
If your name is Philipp and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Philipp, you can simply say:
Pig
Hat
Igloo
Lion
Igloo
Pig
Pig
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Philipp
Philipp
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
P
H
I
L
I
P
P
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
P
H
I
L
I
P
P
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Philipp sounds like this:
