Philipps Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

The same name, two spellings: Philipps and Phillips. The name is usually explained as “Son of Philip, "lover of horses"”. Records show Philipps as one of the forms Phillips took over time. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The same family of names includes Philips, Philippen and Philpott.

The 2010 census count for Philipps in the United States was 1,595, good for rank 17,613. From 1891 to 2000, 1,544 births in France were registered under Philipps.

Arms linked to Phillips and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. For the full story, order the Philipps surname pack.