Phylicia
Phylicia was last recorded in 2014, when 6 babies were given it; 2,381 Americans have been recorded with it between 1968 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,320 Americans named Phylicia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 34 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Phylicia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Phylicia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,068, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
289 babies in 1987, the peak
Phylicia peaked in 1987, when 289 girls were given it, #652 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 6 | #16,068 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,622 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,255 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,475 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,463 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,772 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,425 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,410 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,811 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 17 | #7,018 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 12 | #8,928 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,225 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,533 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,493 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,539 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,804 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 35 | #3,349 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 54 | #2,415 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 58 | #2,300 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 74 | #1,920 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 88 | #1,701 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 133 | #1,282 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 207 | #930 | 0.11 |
| 1990 | 257 | #785 | 0.14 |
| 1989 | 266 | #741 | 0.14 |
| 1988 | 286 | #679 | 0.16 |
| 1987 | 289 | #652 | 0.17 |
| 1986 | 214 | #789 | 0.12 |
| 1985 | 122 | #1,170 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,449 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,720 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,105 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,949 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,050 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,229 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,866 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Phylicia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Phylicia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Phylicia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Phylicia, and how old are they?
2,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,381 Americans ever recorded as Phylicia. The median Phylicia alive today is 37 years old; half are between 34 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 2,124 people named Phylicia (2,119 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,336 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 20 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,020 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 271 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 11 |
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 Phylicia born?
The states with the most babies named Phylicia are New York, California and Texas, with 41% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 245 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| California | 233 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 129 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 99 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 87 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 81 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 73 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 63 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 59 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 58 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Phylicia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Phylicia is most over-represented in New York: since 1968 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Phylicia 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,018 babies since 1880, Phylicia is the most given (79% 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 Phylicia
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 Phylicia and names like it
- Compare Phylicia and PhiliciaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sPhylicia peaked in 1987.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Phylicia since 1910.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Phylicia.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Phylicia alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with PMost given first.