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Czech surnames

Filip: what the name means

Filip: from the first name Filip (Philip).

In January 2017, 7,259 people in Czechia were named Filip or Filipová (the women’s form).

Where the name was most common in 2017

Areas are the Interior Ministry’s; numbers under 5 are not shown.

To find the family in the old parish books, you need the village they came from.

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Questions

What does the surname Filip mean?

Filip: from the first name Filip (Philip).

How many people are called Filip in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 7,259 people in Czechia were named Filip or Filipová, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Filip most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (882), Ostrava (216), České Budějovice (212).

Sources

  1. Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic: surname counts by area, January 2017 (archived; the ministry no longer publishes them)