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Phillipp vs Philomena

American parents have registered 9,951 Philomenas since 1880, against 41 Phillipps. Philomena is still ahead, with 101 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Phillipp against Philomena, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Phillipp Philomena

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

Philomena has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1979, when Phillipp had 7 and Philomena had 8.

Side by side

  Phillipp Philomena
Total US births 419,951
Most in one year 8308
Babies in 2025 under 5101
Estimated living today 302,900
Median age today 6429
Peak year 19611922
Best rank 3,097th boys371st girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,911th
First recorded 19441880
Girls / boys 0 / 419,951 / 0

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 Phillipps alive today are over 64; half the Philomenas are over 29. That is 35 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 Philomena.