Phillipa
Phillipa was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,679 among girls’ names; 113 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Phillipa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Phillipa mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Phillipa is “a female given name from Ancient Greek.”
A less common spelling of Philippa.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Phillipa?
#16,679 among girls’ names, 2025
Phillipa entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #16,679 in 2025.
10 babies in 2011, the peak
Phillipa peaked in 2011, when 10 girls were given it, #10,989 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,679 | 3.1 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,085 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,151 | 3.6 |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,067 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,004 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,989 | 5.7 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,585 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,860 | 3.5 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,527 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,316 | 2.5 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 5 | #7,074 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,054 | 3.0 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,313 | 2.7 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,820 | 3.8 |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,112 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,151 | 3.4 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,790 | 4.6 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,921 | 4.8 |
| 1917 | 5 | #5,167 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Phillipa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Phillipa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 19 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Phillipa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Phillipa, and how old are they?
An estimated 88 Americans named Phillipa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 464 people named Phillipa (436 women and girls, 28 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 83 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.6 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,994 babies since 1880, Phillipa is the second most given (5.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 66 babies (7.6%), again the second most given.
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 Phillipa and names like it
- Compare Phillipa and PhilippaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sPhillipa peaked in 2011.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Phillipa: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Phillipa.
- Names starting with PMost given first.