Filips: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Filips is best understood together with Filippo: both are Italian spellings of one family name. Its meaning, shared with Filippo, is “from the personal name Filippo (Philip)”.

• Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written.
• The same family of names includes Filippis and Fillippi.
• In the 2010 US Census, 222 Americans gave Filips as their last name (rank 84,463). That puts it inside the top 100,000 US surnames.
• Before spelling was fixed, Filippo was also written Filips.

Family crest and blazon

Arms linked to Filippo and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Research your Filips family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.