Philicia
Philicia was last recorded in 2010, when 5 babies were given it; 502 Americans have been recorded with it between 1960 and 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Philicia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Philicia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #19,149, in 2010; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
34 babies in 1991, the peak
Philicia peaked in 1991, when 34 girls were given it, #3,268 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5 | #19,149 | 2.8 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,088 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,625 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,485 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,832 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,721 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,914 | 4.5 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,513 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,085 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,685 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 10 | #8,846 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,454 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,166 | 10.8 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,558 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,338 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,838 | 15.2 |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,268 | 18.1 |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,048 | 7.9 |
| 1989 | 32 | #3,298 | 17.4 |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,983 | 12.9 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,421 | 10.9 |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,983 | 12.2 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,097 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,941 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,718 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,238 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,926 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,792 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,702 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,947 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,441 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,480 | 7.5 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,721 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,450 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,492 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,240 | 9.2 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,855 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,956 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,865 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,156 | 4.7 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,665 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,525 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,412 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,377 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,072 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Philicia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Philicia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Philicia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Philicia, and how old are they?
An estimated 482 Americans named Philicia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 32 and 46. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 480 people named Philicia (478 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 488 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Philicia?
Philicia is a less common spelling of Phylicia: SSA has recorded 502 Philicia and 2,381 Phylicia since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,101 babies since 1880, Philicia is the second most given (16% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Philicia
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Philicia and names like it
- Compare Philicia and PhyliciaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sPhilicia peaked in 1991.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Philicia since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Philicia.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Philicia alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with PMost given first.