Where the Phillips name comes from

Phillips is son of Philip, and it is English and Welsh in roughly equal measure. Philip is the Greek Philippos, built from philos, dear or loving, and hippos, a horse, so the name means horse-loving or fond of horses. It was carried by kings of Macedonia and by one of the apostles, which is how a name about horses ended up all over Christian Europe. The same surname appears as Philips in Dutch, Flemish and north German.