About the name Philippe
Philippe belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Philippe first appears in Social Security records in 1914. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #1033 in 1964, and in 2024 11 babies received the name — 3,029 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.