Philippe vs Phill

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Philippe Phill

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 115 years in which either name was published, Philippe for 99 years and Phill for 16 years. The lead changed hands 15 times.

• 1900–1913 Phill ahead
• 1914–1917 Philippe ahead
• 1918–1921 Phill ahead
• 1922–1941 Philippe ahead, apart from 2 short spells
• 1944–1947 Phill ahead
• 1948–2025 Philippe ahead

8 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Phills alive today are over 67; half the Philippes are over 41. That is 26 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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