Meaning not yet researched.
Phil: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #261 in 1947.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #261 in 1947; #8,078 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Phil in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,078 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1947, at #261.
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Phil: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 boys in 2025. Peak: #261 in 1947 · most boys in one year: 677 (1959).
In 2025, 10 US boys were named Phil, making it the 8,078th most common boys’ name of the year, up 3,907 places from #11,985 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 6 boys named Phil in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #261, reached in 1947. The most boys given the name in a single year was 677, in 1959. For comparison, it was #5,459 in 2015 and #357 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Phil in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 12 babies with the name. In all, 20,108 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 4,590 babies named Phil.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 113 US boys were named Phil; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 18. In 2025 that was about 1 in 170,808 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Philip (345,173 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Philo are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Philo (390).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Phil in the open dataset we use.
Phil is listed as a nickname for Philip, Phillip.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 10 | #8,078 |
| 2024 | — | — | 6 | #11,985 |
| 2023 | — | — | 9 | #8,753 |
| 2022 | — | — | 8 | #9,622 |
| 2021 | — | — | 10 | #8,010 |
| 2020 | — | — | 9 | #8,562 |
| 2019 | — | — | 14 | #6,328 |
| 2018 | — | — | 13 | #6,612 |
| 2017 | — | — | 18 | #5,252 |
| 2016 | — | — | 16 | #5,727 |
| 2015 | — | — | 17 | #5,459 |
| 2014 | — | — | 12 | #6,959 |
| 2013 | — | — | 16 | #5,584 |
| 2012 | — | — | 17 | #5,434 |
| 2011 | — | — | 8 | #9,391 |
| 2010 | — | — | 8 | #9,454 |
| 2009 | — | — | 14 | #6,346 |
| 2008 | — | — | 23 | #4,358 |
| 2007 | — | — | 20 | #4,760 |
| 2006 | — | — | 18 | #5,014 |
| 2005 | — | — | 25 | #3,791 |
| 2004 | — | — | 18 | #4,737 |
| 2003 | — | — | 16 | #4,982 |
| 2002 | — | — | 21 | #4,010 |
| 2001 | — | — | 19 | #4,249 |
| 2000 | — | — | 24 | #3,506 |
| 1999 | — | — | 18 | #4,116 |
| 1998 | — | — | 24 | #3,268 |
| 1997 | — | — | 24 | #3,135 |
| 1996 | — | — | 35 | #2,324 |
| 1995 | — | — | 22 | #3,163 |
| 1994 | — | — | 39 | #2,112 |
| 1993 | — | — | 32 | #2,386 |
| 1992 | — | — | 35 | #2,204 |
| 1991 | — | — | 47 | #1,740 |
| 1990 | — | — | 39 | #1,961 |
| 1989 | — | — | 47 | #1,673 |
| 1988 | — | — | 46 | #1,589 |
| 1987 | — | — | 39 | #1,726 |
| 1986 | — | — | 43 | #1,557 |
| 1985 | — | — | 29 | #2,002 |
| 1984 | — | — | 35 | #1,678 |
| 1983 | — | — | 45 | #1,417 |
| 1982 | — | — | 56 | #1,251 |
| 1981 | — | — | 68 | #1,109 |
| 1980 | — | — | 49 | #1,353 |
| 1979 | — | — | 61 | #1,166 |
| 1978 | — | — | 54 | #1,224 |
| 1977 | — | — | 65 | #1,077 |
| 1976 | — | — | 76 | #962 |
| 1975 | — | — | 69 | #991 |
| 1974 | — | — | 63 | #1,041 |
| 1973 | — | — | 81 | #891 |
| 1972 | — | — | 121 | #724 |
| 1971 | — | — | 144 | #690 |
| 1970 | — | — | 155 | #658 |
| 1969 | — | — | 195 | #560 |
| 1968 | — | — | 193 | #544 |
| 1967 | — | — | 210 | #517 |
| 1966 | — | — | 271 | #464 |
| 1965 | — | — | 359 | #412 |
| 1964 | — | — | 478 | #357 |
| 1963 | — | — | 474 | #357 |
| 1962 | — | — | 613 | #317 |
| 1961 | — | — | 634 | #312 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,071 | 626 | #314 |
| 1959 | — | — | 677 | #300 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,778 | 576 | #320 |
| 1957 | — | — | 495 | #340 |
| 1956 | — | — | 335 | #416 |
| 1955 | — | — | 297 | #426 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,406 | 236 | #473 |
| 1953 | — | — | 258 | #445 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,411 | 256 | #439 |
| 1951 | — | — | 288 | #401 |
| 1950 | — | — | 359 | #357 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,850 | 438 | #328 |
| 1948 | — | — | 575 | #281 |
| 1947 | — | — | 659 | #261 |
| 1946 | — | — | 543 | #276 |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,087 | 387 | #303 |
| 1944 | — | — | 407 | #296 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,205 | 415 | #306 |
| 1942 | — | — | 405 | #303 |
| 1941 | — | — | 392 | #295 |
| 1940 | — | — | 354 | #297 |
| 1939 | — | — | 332 | #307 |
| 1938 | — | — | 310 | #311 |
| 1937 | — | — | 289 | #319 |
| 1936 | — | — | 285 | #319 |
| 1935 | — | — | 264 | #338 |
| 1934 | — | — | 273 | #327 |
| 1933 | — | — | 209 | #375 |
| 1932 | — | — | 217 | #382 |
| 1931 | — | — | 207 | #392 |
| 1930 | — | — | 185 | #431 |
| 1929 | — | — | 157 | #468 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,277 | 153 | #491 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,697 | 168 | #467 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,723 | 155 | #483 |
| 1925 | — | — | 140 | #521 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,355 | 154 | #503 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,285 | 156 | #493 |
| 1922 | — | — | 136 | #539 |
| 1921 | — | — | 157 | #495 |
| 1920 | — | — | 130 | #537 |
| 1919 | — | — | 130 | #523 |
| 1918 | — | — | 155 | #477 |
| 1917 | — | — | 133 | #500 |
| 1916 | — | — | 108 | #551 |
| 1915 | — | — | 120 | #508 |
| 1914 | — | — | 101 | #485 |
| 1913 | — | — | 73 | #507 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,337 | 57 | #528 |
| 1911 | — | — | 29 | #570 |
| 1910 | — | — | 32 | #499 |
| 1909 | — | — | 23 | #554 |
| 1908 | — | — | 26 | #497 |
| 1907 | — | — | 23 | #492 |
| 1906 | — | — | 18 | #560 |
| 1905 | — | — | 21 | #504 |
| 1904 | — | — | 21 | #477 |
| 1903 | — | — | 20 | #483 |
| 1902 | — | — | 23 | #435 |
| 1901 | — | — | 21 | #420 |
| 1900 | — | — | 22 | #508 |
| 1899 | — | — | 14 | #542 |
| 1898 | — | — | 19 | #482 |
| 1897 | — | — | 23 | #401 |
| 1896 | — | — | 17 | #514 |
| 1895 | — | — | 15 | #550 |
| 1894 | — | — | 19 | #458 |
| 1893 | — | — | 15 | #500 |
| 1892 | — | — | 20 | #439 |
| 1891 | — | — | 16 | #455 |
| 1890 | — | — | 21 | #401 |
| 1889 | — | — | 19 | #428 |
| 1888 | — | — | 17 | #477 |
| 1887 | — | — | 16 | #434 |
| 1886 | — | — | 18 | #426 |
| 1885 | — | — | 14 | #518 |
| 1884 | — | — | 19 | #426 |
| 1883 | — | — | 23 | #353 |
| 1882 | — | — | 13 | #534 |
| 1881 | — | — | 18 | #408 |
| 1880 | — | — | 12 | #556 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).