Meaning not yet researched.
Philippa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 61 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,016 in 1918.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,016 in 1918; #2,808 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Philippa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,808 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1918, at #2,016.
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Philippa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 61 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,016 in 1918 · most girls in one year: 75 (2022).
In 2025, 61 US girls were named Philippa, making it the 2,808th most common girls’ name of the year, down 180 places from #2,628 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 67 girls named Philippa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,016, reached in 1918. The most girls given the name in a single year was 75, in 2022. For comparison, it was #2,881 in 2015 and #3,883 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Philippa in 102 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1910 with 5 babies. In all, 1,815 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 562 babies named Philippa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 659 US girls were named Philippa; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 75. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,349 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Philippa ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #2,016 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Felipa (2,249 babies since 1880) and Pippa (1,702 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Philippine and Philippina 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Philippine (21), Philippina (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Philippa in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 6 | #2,016 | #2,462 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61 | #2,808 | — | — |
| 2024 | 67 | #2,628 | — | — |
| 2023 | 67 | #2,638 | — | — |
| 2022 | 75 | #2,442 | — | — |
| 2021 | 66 | #2,633 | — | — |
| 2020 | 59 | #2,814 | — | — |
| 2019 | 50 | #3,212 | — | — |
| 2018 | 67 | #2,606 | — | — |
| 2017 | 73 | #2,481 | — | — |
| 2016 | 74 | #2,473 | — | — |
| 2015 | 61 | #2,881 | — | — |
| 2014 | 65 | #2,708 | — | — |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,625 | — | — |
| 2012 | 51 | #3,252 | — | — |
| 2011 | 53 | #3,164 | — | — |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,557 | — | — |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,277 | — | — |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,662 | — | — |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,646 | — | — |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,411 | — | — |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,315 | — | — |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,739 | — | — |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,248 | — | — |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,965 | — | — |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,797 | — | — |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,522 | — | — |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,758 | — | — |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,106 | — | — |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,730 | — | — |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,033 | — | — |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,563 | — | — |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,976 | — | — |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,919 | — | — |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,368 | — | — |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,158 | — | — |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,717 | — | — |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,546 | — | — |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,989 | — | — |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,221 | — | — |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,285 | — | — |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,941 | — | — |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,002 | — | — |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,570 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,001 | — | — |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,196 | — | — |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,794 | — | — |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,843 | — | — |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,388 | — | — |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,363 | — | — |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,425 | — | — |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,953 | — | — |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,690 | — | — |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,955 | — | — |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,871 | — | — |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,936 | — | — |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,649 | — | — |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,535 | — | — |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,495 | — | — |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,686 | — | — |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,474 | — | — |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,292 | — | — |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,469 | — | — |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,949 | — | — |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,642 | — | — |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,977 | — | — |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,130 | — | — |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,630 | — | — |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,662 | — | — |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,192 | — | — |
| 1954 | 7 | #5,028 | — | — |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,062 | — | — |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,340 | — | — |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,715 | — | — |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,883 | — | — |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,112 | — | — |
| 1948 | 19 | #2,315 | — | — |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,941 | — | — |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,613 | — | — |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,427 | — | — |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,319 | — | — |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,242 | — | — |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,768 | — | — |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,165 | — | — |
| 1936 | 9 | #3,049 | — | — |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,677 | — | — |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,101 | — | — |
| 1933 | 9 | #3,063 | — | — |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,311 | — | — |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,603 | — | — |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,193 | — | — |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,954 | — | — |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,928 | — | — |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,544 | — | — |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,603 | — | — |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,479 | — | — |
| 1920 | 11 | #3,058 | — | — |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,735 | — | — |
| 1918 | 19 | #2,016 | — | — |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,838 | — | — |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,294 | — | — |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,817 | — | — |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,712 | — | — |
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).