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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:

  1. English (southwestern): patronymic from Philip.
  2. 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.