Phylicia — girls' name

What the Data Says About Phylicia

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,381 babies named Phylicia between 1968 and 2014, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Phylicia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 1987, when 289 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Phylicia performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 1,203 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Phylicia shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 245 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Phylicia in 26 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Phylicia in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,381 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.