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".
In Croatia, the name Filip was among the most common masculine given names in the 2000s.
Notable people with the name include:
Given name
- Filip Barović (born 1990), Montenegrin basketball player
- Filip Đorđević (born 1987), Serbian footballer
- 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 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
References
- "Najljepša imena za zimske bebe". www.index.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 2024-12-26.
- Čilaš Šimpraga. Ivšić Majić and Vidović. Rječnik 500 najčešćih suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena (in Croatian). Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje. p. 26.
- "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.
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