Phillips
Phillips was last recorded in 2023, when 7 babies were given it; 1,331 Americans have been recorded with it between 1904 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Phillips by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Phillips?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,521, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
32 babies in 1949, the peak
Phillips peaked in 1949, when 32 boys were given it, #1,291 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 7 | #10,521 | 4.1 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,582 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,520 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 7 | #10,459 | 3.9 |
| 2015 | 5 | #13,533 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 5 | #13,749 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 5 | #12,850 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,471 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 5 | #12,006 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,928 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (100)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 7 | #8,882 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,571 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,350 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,978 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,357 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,578 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,812 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 13 | #4,625 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,541 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,770 | 7.9 |
| 1990 | 18 | #3,421 | 8.8 |
| 1989 | 15 | #3,756 | 7.5 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,380 | 5.7 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,902 | 6.4 |
| 1986 | 13 | #3,596 | 7.1 |
| 1985 | 17 | #2,911 | 9.2 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,453 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 16 | #2,882 | 8.9 |
| 1982 | 14 | #3,243 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 10 | #4,076 | 5.6 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,357 | 3.9 |
| 1978 | 15 | #2,890 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 14 | #3,008 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,789 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,660 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 6 | #5,082 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,162 | 7.1 |
| 1972 | 10 | #3,286 | 6.2 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,272 | 4.0 |
| 1970 | 12 | #2,846 | 6.5 |
| 1969 | 10 | #3,012 | 5.6 |
| 1968 | 9 | #3,041 | 5.2 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,177 | 4.6 |
| 1966 | 11 | #2,584 | 6.2 |
| 1965 | 9 | #2,931 | 4.8 |
| 1964 | 19 | #1,884 | 9.5 |
| 1963 | 14 | #2,279 | 6.9 |
| 1962 | 13 | #2,337 | 6.3 |
| 1961 | 19 | #1,926 | 8.9 |
| 1960 | 14 | #2,288 | 6.6 |
| 1959 | 15 | #2,175 | 7.0 |
| 1958 | 10 | #2,769 | 4.7 |
| 1957 | 15 | #2,169 | 7.0 |
| 1956 | 20 | #1,803 | 9.5 |
| 1955 | 18 | #1,891 | 8.7 |
| 1954 | 13 | #2,288 | 6.4 |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,086 | 7.6 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,054 | 7.7 |
| 1951 | 17 | #1,888 | 9.0 |
| 1950 | 19 | #1,733 | 10.6 |
| 1949 | 32 | #1,291 | 18.0 |
| 1948 | 17 | #1,865 | 9.7 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,051 | 8.2 |
| 1946 | 18 | #1,743 | 11.1 |
| 1945 | 18 | #1,615 | 13.4 |
| 1944 | 14 | #1,959 | 10.3 |
| 1943 | 16 | #1,888 | 11.2 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,142 | 5.1 |
| 1941 | 23 | #1,439 | 18.7 |
| 1940 | 16 | #1,783 | 13.8 |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,030 | 11.7 |
| 1938 | 17 | #1,728 | 15.3 |
| 1937 | 20 | #1,569 | 18.8 |
| 1936 | 16 | #1,777 | 15.4 |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,005 | 13.4 |
| 1934 | 21 | #1,541 | 20.3 |
| 1933 | 14 | #1,979 | 14.1 |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,699 | 18.2 |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,680 | 18.3 |
| 1930 | 23 | #1,555 | 21.0 |
| 1929 | 16 | #1,985 | 14.9 |
| 1928 | 21 | #1,690 | 19.0 |
| 1927 | 17 | #2,015 | 15.1 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,163 | 13.5 |
| 1925 | 17 | #1,994 | 15.2 |
| 1924 | 23 | #1,666 | 20.3 |
| 1923 | 22 | #1,685 | 20.1 |
| 1922 | 16 | #2,121 | 14.7 |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,351 | 12.7 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,571 | 11.3 |
| 1919 | 21 | #1,678 | 21.4 |
| 1918 | 18 | #1,885 | 17.8 |
| 1917 | 18 | #1,796 | 19.4 |
| 1916 | 16 | #1,922 | 18.0 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,149 | 15.3 |
| 1914 | 12 | #1,945 | 18.3 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,443 | 13.7 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,217 | 16.3 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,138 | 48.8 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,355 | 39.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Phillips a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Phillips has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 100 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Phillips: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Phillips, and how old are they?
An estimated 679 Americans named Phillips and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (51% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 36 and 70. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 902 people named Phillips (106 women and girls, 796 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 755 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% above 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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Phillips
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 Phillips and names like it
- Compare Phillips and RegisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sPhillips peaked in 1949.
- Massachusetts’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Phillips since 1910.
- The top names of 1949The year the most babies were named Phillips.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Phillips alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with PMost given first.