Phil
Phil is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. Its best rank was 261st, in 1947.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1959677 births
- Best rank
- #261in 1947
- Since 1880
- 20,026people given the name
The story in the numbers
20,026 boys have been named Phil in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1959, with 677 births.
The name has all but left use: 6 births in 2024, against 677 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1949, and the 1940s alone account for 23%. It has spent 96 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Phil | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 169 | |
| 1890s | 179 | |
| 1900s | 218 | |
| 1910s | 938 | |
| 1920s | 1,506 | |
| 1930s | 2,571 | |
| 1940s | 4,575 | |
| 1950s | 3,777 | |
| 1960s | 4,053 | |
| 1970s | 889 | |
| 1980s | 457 | |
| 1990s | 315 | |
| 2000s | 198 | |
| 2010s | 139 | |
| 2020s | 42 |
In 1959, its biggest year
Phil was the 300th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1959 were Michael, David, James, John and Robert. See all of 1959.
Names that rose and fell with Phil
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Danpeak 1960
- Berniepeak 1960
- Erniepeak 1959
- Eddiepeak 1947
- Allenpeak 1951
- Bartonpeak 1960
- Jamespeak 1947
- Halpeak 1956
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.