Phylis — girls' name

What the Data Says About Phylis

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,342 babies named Phylis between 1896 and 1985, spanning 90 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Phylis currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1985. The name reached its historical peak in 1949, when 109 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Phylis performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 857 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Phylis shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 277 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Phylis in 27 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Phylis 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 3,342 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.