Girls' name · since 1965
Phelicia
Phelicia has 202 recorded births since 1965 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1987 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #19,733 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 202
- born since 1965
- 1990s
- peak decade
Phelicia is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 202 have been recorded since 1965.
Phelicia has 202 recorded births among girls since 1965, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1965 to 1997.
- #19,733 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 202 born since 1965
- 1990s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Phelicia ranks #19,733 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 202 born since 1965, peaking in the 1990s.
- #19,733 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 202
- born since 1965
- 1990s
- peak decade
Phelicia's 202 recorded births place it above 72.7% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Phelicia's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Phelicia's full recorded timeline at 1985, 54% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 46% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1966, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1987 peak of 13 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Phelicia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1965–1997
- Peak year (1987)
- 13
- Annual births at peak, across 33 years of records
Phelicia by decade
1990s is the heaviest window (65 births, 32% of the file).
1990s was Phelicia's strongest decade.
65 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 32% of all-time use.
Phelicia births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1960s
1960s
35 births
- 1970s
1970s
41 births
- 1980s
1980s
61 births
- 1990s
1990s
65 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 65 births (32% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Phelicia: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1987)
Similar record span (~32 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1965–1997 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Phelicia draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.