First name origin & meaning: Greek: Horse lover First name variations: Phillip, Phillipa, Philipe, Philippos, Philo, Phillips, Phipps, Philipson, Phillips, Philby, Phil, Philly, Felipe, Filippo, Filip, Filbert, Philip Last name origins & meanings:
- English (southwestern): patronymic from Philip.
- The brothers George and William Phelps emigrated from
Gloucestershire, England, to Dorchester, MA, about 1630. Five years
later they moved to Windsor, CT. George’s sixth-generation descendant,
Anson Greene Phelps (1781–1853), rose from being a penniless orphan
to the status of a major industrialist and a prominent CT
philanthropist.
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