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Meaning & Origins
From the Greek name Philippos, meaning ‘lover of horses’, from philein ‘to love’ + hippos ‘horse’. This was popular in the classical period and since. It was the name of the father of Alexander the Great. It was also the name of one of Christ's apostles, of a deacon ordained by the apostles after the death of Christ, and of several other early saints. See also Philippa.
| 222nd in the U.S. for 2011 |
English and Scottish: occupational name for a tailor, from Old French tailleur (Late Latin taliator, from taliare ‘to cut’). The surname is extremely common in Britain and Ireland, and its numbers have been swelled by its adoption as an Americanized form of the numerous equivalent European names, most of which are also very common among Ashkenazic Jews, for example Schneider, Szabó, and Portnov.
| 12th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Phillip, Philippe, Philipp, Phillippe, Phillipe, Philippa, Philp, Phillipa, Phillp, Phillippa
Tayler, Tayloe, Tailor, Teyler, Taylo, Taylore, Taylar, Taylan, Talluri, Toylor
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