Filip

Filip
Gender	Male
Language(s)	Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Icelandic, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish
Origin
Word/name	Greek
Meaning	Horse lover” or “Friend of Horses.
Region of origin	Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Netherlands, Finland, Iceland, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden
Other names
Alternative spelling	Cyrillic: Филип

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

In Croatia, the name Filip was among the most common masculine given names in the 2000s.^[1]

Notable people with the name include:

Given name

Filip Barović (born 1990), Montenegrin basketball player
Filip Đorđević (born 1987), Serbian footballer
Filip Filipović (born 1987), Serbian water polo player, Olympic champion
Filip Hološko (born 1984), Slovak footballer
Filip Cristian Jianu (born 2001), Romanian tennis player
Filip Marković (born 1992), Serbian footballer
Filip Minarik (1975–2023), Czech jockey
Filip Mișea (1873–1944), Aromanian activist, physician and 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

References

^ "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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[1] "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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