Phil
Phil reached its high-water mark in 1959 at number 300, and has been recorded 20,108 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 7,679th. About 10,000 Phils are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 65.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 20,108
- Estimated living today
- 10,000
- Median age today
- 65
- Peak year
- 1959
- Best rank
- 300th
- Rank in 2025
- 7,679th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 72 / 20,036
How old the living Phils are
born that year still alive today
Of the 20,108 babies given the name since 1880, about 10,000 are alive — 51 in every hundred. Roughly 230 of them are children and 5,600 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1960 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Phils
- Phil Collins (born 1951)English drummer, singer, and songwriter
- Phil Foden (born 2000)English footballer
- Phil Jones (born 1992)English association football player, born 1992
- Phil Jagielka (born 1982)English association football player
- Phil Spector (1939–2021)American record producer
- Phil Neville (born 1977)English association football player and manager
- Phil Jackson (born 1945)American basketball player, coach and executive
- Phil Hill (1927–2008)American racing driver
People named Phil with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Phil is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Phil is most concentrated in Oklahoma (2.6×), New Mexico (2.5×), Kansas (2.3×), Indiana (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1959
The most popular boys’ names the year Phil peaked:
Phil elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium boys | Phil | 398 | 243rd |
| Switzerland boys | Phil | 257 | 368th |
| England and Wales boys | Phil | 66 | 2,211th |
| France boys | Phil | 35 | 5,707th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Phil: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Phil | 251 | 0.020% | 266th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Phil | 3 | 0.001% | 645th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Phil | 2 | 0.003% | 193rd |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Phil | 1 | 0.027% | 9th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Phil is most concentrated in Lucerne, where 0.04% of children were given it – 37 of them.
Phil: rank by region
In 2025, Phil was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Phil | 180 | 32 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Phil appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (99th) and Province of Limburg (109th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Phil by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 82 | 178th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Related names
Phil against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.