Phillips
Phillips is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 194932 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1904
- 1,331people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,331 boys have been named Phillips in the United States since 1904, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1949, with 32 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 32 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1950, and the 1930s alone account for 13%.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Phillips | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 13 | |
| 1910s | 112 | |
| 1920s | 173 | |
| 1930s | 176 | |
| 1940s | 176 | |
| 1950s | 157 | |
| 1960s | 126 | |
| 1970s | 89 | |
| 1980s | 124 | |
| 1990s | 105 | |
| 2000s | 43 | |
| 2010s | 25 | |
| 2020s | 12 |
In 1949, its biggest year
Phillips was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1949 were James, Robert, John, William and Michael. See all of 1949.
Names that rose and fell with Phillips
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Regispeak 1917
- Girardpeak 1926
- Refugiopeak 1927
- Wardellpeak 1950
- Cleophuspeak 1947
- Franklynpeak 1933
- Glendonpeak 1975
- Harrellpeak 1947
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.