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Phillipp vs Phillis

American parents have registered 3,683 Phillises since 1880, against 41 Phillipps. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Phillipp against Phillis, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Phillipp Phillis

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 99 years in which either name was published, Phillis for 98 years and Phillipp for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Phillipp Phillis
Total US births 413,683
Most in one year 8118
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 302,000
Median age today 6469
Peak year 19611949
Best rank 3,097th boys800th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19441882
Girls / boys 0 / 413,677 / 6

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 Phillises alive today are over 69; half the Phillipps are over 64. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Phillipp and Phillis.