Phillis
Phillis was last recorded in 2000, when 8 babies were given it; 3,683 Americans have been recorded with it between 1882 and 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,980 Americans named Phillis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (54% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 62 and 77.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Phillis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Phillis mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Phillis is “a female given name from Ancient Greek.”
A less common spelling of Phyllis.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Phillis?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,515, in 2000; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
118 babies in 1949, the peak
Phillis peaked in 1949, when 118 girls were given it, #800 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 8 | #11,515 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,209 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,199 | 4.3 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,883 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,056 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,811 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,269 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,864 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,103 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,102 | 3.5 |
Every recorded year (99)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 10 | #6,672 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,924 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,407 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,768 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,716 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,430 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,728 | 12.3 |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,980 | 10.9 |
| 1973 | 28 | #2,608 | 19.2 |
| 1972 | 27 | #2,653 | 17.7 |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,340 | 12.0 |
| 1970 | 27 | #2,685 | 15.4 |
| 1969 | 25 | #2,686 | 14.8 |
| 1968 | 47 | #1,723 | 28.7 |
| 1967 | 44 | #1,745 | 26.7 |
| 1966 | 45 | #1,693 | 26.6 |
| 1965 | 70 | #1,300 | 39.7 |
| 1964 | 66 | #1,391 | 34.8 |
| 1963 | 71 | #1,315 | 36.8 |
| 1962 | 68 | #1,347 | 34.6 |
| 1961 | 70 | #1,339 | 34.7 |
| 1960 | 95 | #1,113 | 47.0 |
| 1959 | 70 | #1,287 | 34.6 |
| 1958 | 84 | #1,161 | 41.8 |
| 1957 | 76 | #1,215 | 37.2 |
| 1956 | 90 | #1,093 | 44.8 |
| 1955 | 70 | #1,204 | 35.8 |
| 1954 | 77 | #1,130 | 39.7 |
| 1953 | 79 | #1,090 | 42.0 |
| 1952 | 84 | #1,024 | 45.3 |
| 1951 | 101 | #911 | 56.1 |
| 1950 | 94 | #921 | 54.9 |
| 1949 | 118 | #800 | 69.0 |
| 1948 | 93 | #905 | 54.8 |
| 1947 | 108 | #844 | 60.9 |
| 1946 | 87 | #895 | 55.4 |
| 1945 | 57 | #1,029 | 43.6 |
| 1944 | 62 | #992 | 46.7 |
| 1943 | 80 | #878 | 57.3 |
| 1942 | 76 | #899 | 56.3 |
| 1941 | 41 | #1,181 | 33.9 |
| 1940 | 49 | #1,033 | 42.8 |
| 1939 | 47 | #1,050 | 42.9 |
| 1938 | 50 | #1,016 | 45.3 |
| 1937 | 52 | #979 | 48.9 |
| 1936 | 54 | #937 | 51.9 |
| 1935 | 45 | #1,037 | 42.9 |
| 1934 | 36 | #1,201 | 34.5 |
| 1933 | 45 | #1,045 | 44.6 |
| 1932 | 41 | #1,124 | 38.4 |
| 1931 | 44 | #1,069 | 41.3 |
| 1930 | 54 | #1,010 | 48.0 |
| 1929 | 48 | #1,061 | 43.0 |
| 1928 | 50 | #1,066 | 43.4 |
| 1927 | 53 | #1,065 | 44.4 |
| 1926 | 43 | #1,178 | 36.3 |
| 1925 | 42 | #1,207 | 34.5 |
| 1924 | 39 | #1,298 | 31.2 |
| 1923 | 38 | #1,281 | 31.5 |
| 1922 | 42 | #1,206 | 35.0 |
| 1921 | 35 | #1,366 | 28.4 |
| 1920 | 39 | #1,243 | 32.5 |
| 1919 | 48 | #1,054 | 42.5 |
| 1918 | 26 | #1,594 | 22.5 |
| 1917 | 32 | #1,300 | 29.6 |
| 1916 | 25 | #1,522 | 23.9 |
| 1915 | 9 | #3,082 | 9.1 |
| 1914 | 21 | #1,429 | 27.6 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,744 | 20.8 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,107 | 16.1 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,764 | 21.5 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,900 | 20.2 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,729 | 23.0 |
| 1908 | 6 | #2,053 | 17.9 |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,483 | 28.3 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,909 | 20.3 |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,112 | 18.2 |
| 1903 | 9 | #1,293 | 34.4 |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,564 | 26.5 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,696 | 23.4 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,787 | 21.5 |
| 1898 | 11 | #1,089 | 42.5 |
| 1896 | 8 | #1,281 | 33.6 |
| 1895 | 10 | #1,109 | 42.8 |
| 1894 | 9 | #1,118 | 40.4 |
| 1893 | 8 | #1,153 | 37.6 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,416 | 28.3 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,489 | 26.3 |
| 1882 | 6 | #882 | 55.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Phillis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Phillis has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 99 years of records.
Girls and boys named Phillis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Phillis, and how old are they?
1,980 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 54% of the 3,683 Americans ever recorded as Phillis. The median Phillis alive today is 70 years old; half are between 62 and 77.
The 2020 Census counted 2,783 people named Phillis (2,742 women and girls, 41 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,293 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 295 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,230 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 372 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 67 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 13 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Phillis born?
The states with the most babies named Phillis are Texas, Alabama and Missouri, with 36% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama and Missouri are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 215 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Alabama | 88 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Missouri | 85 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 84 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 78 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Mississippi | 56 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 49 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 43 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Oklahoma | 43 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 42 | not ranked | 0.5× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Phillis with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 331,280 babies since 1880, Phillis is the second most given (1.1% 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Phillis
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 Phillis and names like it
- Compare Phillis and PhyllisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sPhillis peaked in 1949.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Phillis since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Phillis: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1949The year the most babies were named Phillis.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Phillis alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with PMost given first.