Phillip
The boy's name Phillip has been in the national records since 1880, with 312,891 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 651st. About 227,000 Phillips are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 51.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Phillip boys named Phillip
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 312,891
- Estimated living today
- 227,000
- Median age today
- 51
- Peak year
- 1960
- Best rank
- 66th
- Rank in 2025
- 651st
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 1,330 / 311,561
How old the living Phillips are
born that year still alive today
Of the 312,891 babies given the name since 1880, about 227,000 are alive — 73 in every hundred. Roughly 13,000 of them are children and 60,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1974 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin Ancient Greek
A less common spelling of Philip.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Phillips
- Phillip Cocu (born 1970)Dutch association football player and manager
- Phillip Sharp (born 1944)American biologist
- Phillip Hughes (1988–2014)Australian cricketer
- Phillip Noyce (born 1950)Australian film director
- Phillip Phillips (born 1990)American singer
- Phillip Griffiths (born 1938)American mathematician
- Phillip Rhee (born 1960)American actor
- John Phillip Law (1937–2008)American film actor
People named Phillip with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Phillip is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Phillip is most concentrated in New Mexico (1.9×), Alabama (1.8×), Kentucky (1.7×), Oklahoma (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1960
The most popular boys’ names the year Phillip peaked:
Phillip elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand boys | Phillip | 5,977 | 37th |
| England and Wales boys | Phillip | 1,720 | 180th |
| Norway boys | Phillip | 973 | 114th |
| Ireland boys | Phillip | 417 | 122nd |
| Scotland boys | Phillip | 327 | 116th |
| Poland boys | Phillip | 188 birth registrations | 242nd |
| France boys | Phillip | 105 | 846th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Phillip | 43 | 192nd |
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.
Phillip by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 44 | 242nd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Phillip among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Phillip | 16 | 44 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Phillip against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.