Phylis
Phylis is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 791st, in 1943.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1949109 births
- Best rank
- #791in 1943
- Since 1896
- 3,342people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,342 girls have been named Phylis in the United States since 1896, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1949, with 109 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 109 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1943, and the 1940s alone account for 26%. It has spent 22 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1949, its biggest year
Phylis was the 849th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1949 were Linda, Mary, Patricia, Barbara and Susan. See all of 1949.
Names that rose and fell with Phylis
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Phylisspeak 1951
- Earnestinepeak 1944
- Georgenepeak 1947
- Fayettapeak 1953
- Raymapeak 1947
- Phyllispeak 1947
- Georginepeak 1951
- Tommyepeak 1942
Other spellings in the data
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.