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Phill

The boy's name Phill has been in the national records since 1900, with 622 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2005. About 290 Phills are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 67.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Phill

By the numbers

Total US births
622
Estimated living today
290
Median age today
67
Peak year
1960
Best rank
1,772nd
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1900

How old the living Phills are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 622 babies given the name since 1900, about 290 are alive — 46 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1958 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 Phills

People named Phill with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Names of 1960

The most popular boys’ names the year Phill peaked:

All the names of 1960

Phill elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
Belgium boys Phill 5 1,405th

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.

Phill: rank by region

In 2018, Phill was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Phill 870 5

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.

Related names

Phill 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.