Phyllicia
Phyllicia was last recorded in 1998, when 5 babies were given it; 135 Americans have been recorded with it between 1984 and 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Phyllicia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Phyllicia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,932, in 1998; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1989, the peak
Phyllicia peaked in 1989, when 18 girls were given it, #4,994 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 5 | #15,932 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,495 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,276 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,930 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,106 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,914 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,217 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,857 | 8.5 |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,015 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,994 | 9.8 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 7 | #10,058 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,839 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,499 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,948 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,000 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Phyllicia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Phyllicia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 15 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Phyllicia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Phyllicia, and how old are they?
An estimated 132 Americans named Phyllicia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 33 and 38. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 133 people named Phyllicia (133 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 133 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
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).
How common is the spelling Phyllicia?
Phyllicia is a less common spelling of Phylicia: SSA has recorded 135 Phyllicia and 2,381 Phylicia since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,018 babies since 1880, Phyllicia is the third most given (4.5% 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 Phyllicia
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 Phyllicia and names like it
- Compare Phyllicia and PhyliciaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sPhyllicia peaked in 1989.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Phyllicia.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Phyllicia alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with PMost given first.