Philis
Philis was last recorded in 1973, when 5 babies were given it; 217 Americans have been recorded with it between 1917 and 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Philis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Philis?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,379, in 1973; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1949, the peak
Philis peaked in 1949, when 11 girls were given it, #3,345 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 5 | #9,379 | 3.4 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,535 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,335 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,330 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,526 | 2.6 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,378 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,073 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,543 | 4.4 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,778 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,253 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 8 | #4,644 | 4.1 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,201 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,158 | 4.8 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,932 | 5.0 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,226 | 4.7 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,345 | 6.4 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,129 | 4.7 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,645 | 5.6 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,313 | 4.5 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,426 | 4.6 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,617 | 6.0 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,153 | 7.4 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,771 | 6.1 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,789 | 4.6 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,723 | 5.1 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,545 | 4.1 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,624 | 4.2 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,949 | 6.5 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,734 | 7.1 |
| 1917 | 7 | #4,009 | 6.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Philis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Philis has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Philis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Philis, and how old are they?
An estimated 128 Americans named Philis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (59% of everyone recorded); the median is 72 years old and half are between 65 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 342 people named Philis (321 women and girls, 21 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 145 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Philis?
Philis is a less common spelling of Phyllis: SSA has recorded 217 Philis and 323,367 Phyllis since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 333,089 babies since 1880, Philis is the fifth most given (<1% 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.
More about Philis and names like it
- Compare Philis and PhyllisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sPhilis peaked in 1949.
- The top names of 1949The year the most babies were named Philis.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Philis alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with PMost given first.