Meaning not yet researched.
Phillip: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 425 in 2025. Its best rank was #64 in 1950.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #64 in 1950; #651 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Phillip in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#651 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1950, at #64.
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Phillip: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 425 boys in 2025. Peak: #64 in 1950 · most boys in one year: 6,047 (1960).
In 2025, 425 US boys were named Phillip, making it the 651st most common boys’ name of the year, down 25 places from #626 in 2024. That is 28 fewer than the 453 boys named Phillip in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #64, reached in 1950. The most boys given the name in a single year was 6,047, in 1960. For comparison, it was #409 in 2015 and #64 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Phillip in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 75 babies with the name. In all, 312,891 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 52,645 babies named Phillip.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,628 US boys were named Phillip; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 727. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,019 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Phillip ranked highest in South Dakota in 2025, at #293 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Philip (345,173 babies since 1880), Felipe (31,958 babies since 1880), Philippe (3,043 babies since 1880) and Filip (2,384 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Phillips, Phill and Phillippe are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Phil and Pip.
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: Phillips (1,331), Phill (622), Phillippe (218), Fillip (27).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 21 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota | 5 | #293 | — |
| Kentucky | 14 | #368 | #348 |
| Alabama | 14 | #393 | #323 |
| Louisiana | 11 | #442 | #456 |
| Virginia | 18 | #448 | #407 |
| Oklahoma | 10 | #450 | #273 |
| South Carolina | 11 | #461 | #436 |
| Missouri | 13 | #483 | #336 |
| Michigan | 17 | #511 | #550 |
| Tennessee | 15 | #514 | #357 |
| Indiana | 12 | #572 | #340 |
| Kansas | 6 | #574 | #560 |
| Oregon | 6 | #582 | #619 |
| Florida | 29 | #596 | #431 |
| Wisconsin | 8 | #609 | #587 |
| Ohio | 16 | #617 | #398 |
| Maryland | 8 | #617 | #410 |
| North Carolina | 15 | #633 | #352 |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #698 | #402 |
| California | 38 | #714 | #420 |
| Colorado | 7 | #737 | #470 |
| Georgia | 13 | #749 | #269 |
| Minnesota | 6 | #784 | #457 |
| Washington | 8 | #790 | #425 |
| Arizona | 7 | #829 | #419 |
| Illinois | 10 | #853 | #396 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #870 | #310 |
| New York | 15 | #906 | #496 |
| Texas | 27 | #927 | #462 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,144 | #534 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 425 | #651 |
| 2024 | — | — | 453 | #626 |
| 2023 | — | — | 455 | #616 |
| 2022 | — | — | 514 | #573 |
| 2021 | — | — | 559 | #525 |
| 2020 | — | — | 553 | #519 |
| 2019 | — | — | 569 | #503 |
| 2018 | — | — | 666 | #449 |
| 2017 | — | — | 727 | #427 |
| 2016 | — | — | 707 | #437 |
| 2015 | — | — | 762 | #409 |
| 2014 | — | — | 798 | #390 |
| 2013 | — | — | 870 | #364 |
| 2012 | — | — | 884 | #350 |
| 2011 | — | — | 779 | #378 |
| 2010 | — | — | 864 | #355 |
| 2009 | — | — | 927 | #340 |
| 2008 | — | — | 1,098 | #304 |
| 2007 | — | — | 1,175 | #292 |
| 2006 | — | — | 1,220 | #286 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,493 | 1,233 | #268 |
| 2004 | — | — | 1,325 | #247 |
| 2003 | — | — | 1,455 | #233 |
| 2002 | — | — | 1,553 | #226 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,274 | 1,711 | #209 |
| 2000 | — | — | 1,776 | #198 |
| 1999 | — | — | 1,818 | #188 |
| 1998 | — | — | 1,887 | #178 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,294 | 2,087 | #165 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,280 | 2,309 | #150 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,122 | 2,513 | #137 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,440 | 2,675 | #131 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,530 | 3,003 | #117 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,205 | 3,375 | #107 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,160 | 3,851 | #98 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,755 | 4,454 | #81 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,862 | 4,721 | #75 |
| 1988 | 27 | #3,553 | 4,576 | #71 |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,491 | 4,813 | #68 |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,891 | 4,705 | #70 |
| 1985 | 39 | #2,531 | 4,496 | #69 |
| 1984 | 29 | #3,045 | 4,234 | #70 |
| 1983 | 37 | #2,502 | 4,470 | #66 |
| 1982 | 32 | #2,881 | 4,520 | #67 |
| 1981 | 34 | #2,705 | 4,539 | #66 |
| 1980 | 36 | #2,639 | 4,633 | #65 |
| 1979 | 32 | #2,779 | 4,422 | #68 |
| 1978 | 37 | #2,418 | 4,362 | #67 |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,240 | 3,967 | #70 |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,069 | 3,789 | #69 |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,937 | 3,853 | #72 |
| 1974 | 29 | #2,595 | 3,934 | #70 |
| 1973 | 24 | #2,889 | 3,861 | #71 |
| 1972 | 22 | #3,030 | 3,532 | #75 |
| 1971 | 25 | #2,852 | 3,850 | #76 |
| 1970 | 36 | #2,228 | 4,275 | #73 |
| 1969 | 24 | #2,751 | 4,006 | #74 |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,134 | 3,987 | #71 |
| 1967 | 22 | #2,686 | 4,049 | #73 |
| 1966 | 29 | #2,236 | 4,402 | #71 |
| 1965 | 16 | #3,227 | 4,891 | #70 |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,074 | 5,502 | #67 |
| 1963 | 30 | #2,202 | 5,655 | #70 |
| 1962 | 28 | #2,299 | 5,881 | #68 |
| 1961 | 22 | #2,658 | 5,976 | #69 |
| 1960 | 29 | #2,182 | 6,047 | #66 |
| 1959 | 24 | #2,382 | 5,597 | #74 |
| 1958 | 21 | #2,559 | 5,273 | #81 |
| 1957 | 27 | #2,151 | 5,544 | #79 |
| 1956 | 24 | #2,304 | 5,414 | #76 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,933 | 5,411 | #74 |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,866 | 5,149 | #75 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,896 | 5,103 | #76 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,341 | 5,001 | #74 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,897 | 4,910 | #79 |
| 1950 | 24 | #1,990 | 5,055 | #64 |
| 1949 | 17 | #2,493 | 5,201 | #66 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,132 | 5,018 | #69 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,401 | 4,789 | #74 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,845 | 3,775 | #83 |
| 1945 | — | — | 3,081 | #85 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,620 | 3,002 | #83 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,747 | 3,251 | #81 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,635 | 3,373 | #77 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,493 | 2,871 | #77 |
| 1940 | — | — | 2,628 | #79 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,714 | 2,175 | #92 |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,130 | 2,154 | #95 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,722 | 2,005 | #98 |
| 1936 | — | — | 1,847 | #102 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,678 | 1,783 | #107 |
| 1934 | — | — | 1,577 | #113 |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,125 | 1,328 | #125 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,466 | 1,314 | #134 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,936 | 1,176 | #141 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,273 | 1,175 | #144 |
| 1929 | 10 | #3,097 | 1,027 | #151 |
| 1928 | — | — | 1,078 | #149 |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,322 | 1,040 | #152 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,491 | 1,020 | #154 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,903 | 942 | #160 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,922 | 900 | #166 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,856 | 844 | #170 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,627 | 920 | #164 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,973 | 914 | #162 |
| 1920 | — | — | 840 | #164 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,696 | 741 | #177 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,421 | 730 | #180 |
| 1917 | — | — | 722 | #173 |
| 1916 | — | — | 723 | #166 |
| 1915 | — | — | 628 | #180 |
| 1914 | — | — | 537 | #165 |
| 1913 | — | — | 369 | #185 |
| 1912 | — | — | 306 | #189 |
| 1911 | — | — | 212 | #160 |
| 1910 | — | — | 167 | #174 |
| 1909 | — | — | 146 | #171 |
| 1908 | — | — | 131 | #174 |
| 1907 | — | — | 124 | #176 |
| 1906 | — | — | 122 | #163 |
| 1905 | — | — | 127 | #159 |
| 1904 | — | — | 127 | #152 |
| 1903 | — | — | 92 | #181 |
| 1902 | — | — | 87 | #191 |
| 1901 | — | — | 78 | #189 |
| 1900 | — | — | 127 | #166 |
| 1899 | — | — | 88 | #167 |
| 1898 | — | — | 86 | #183 |
| 1897 | — | — | 82 | #189 |
| 1896 | — | — | 89 | #184 |
| 1895 | — | — | 90 | #178 |
| 1894 | — | — | 110 | #140 |
| 1893 | — | — | 81 | #179 |
| 1892 | — | — | 104 | #155 |
| 1891 | — | — | 74 | #177 |
| 1890 | — | — | 80 | #174 |
| 1889 | — | — | 78 | #172 |
| 1888 | — | — | 116 | #134 |
| 1887 | — | — | 80 | #156 |
| 1886 | — | — | 94 | #151 |
| 1885 | — | — | 87 | #157 |
| 1884 | — | — | 89 | #155 |
| 1883 | — | — | 92 | #137 |
| 1882 | — | — | 103 | #137 |
| 1881 | — | — | 84 | #149 |
| 1880 | — | — | 75 | #174 |
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).