Meaning not yet researched.
Phyllis: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #24 in 1929.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #24 in 1929; #12,873 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Phyllis in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,873 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1929, at #24.
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Phyllis: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 girls in 2025. Peak: #24 in 1929 · most girls in one year: 9,187 (1947).
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Phyllis, making it the 12,873rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 4,555 places from #8,318 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 13 girls named Phyllis in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #24, reached in 1929. The most girls given the name in a single year was 9,187, in 1947. For comparison, it was #5,987 in 2015 and #53 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Phyllis in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 6 babies with the name. In all, 323,367 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 76,383 babies named Phyllis.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 148 US girls were named Phyllis; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 21. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Phyliss (2,406 babies since 1880), Phillis (3,683 babies since 1880) and Phylis (3,342 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Phylliss, Philis and Phyillis are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Phyl.
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: Phylliss (597), Philis (217), Phyillis (74), Phyllys (22), Phillys (16).
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.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,873 | — | — |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,318 | — | — |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,136 | — | — |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,555 | — | — |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,403 | — | — |
| 2020 | 20 | #6,027 | — | — |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,633 | — | — |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,723 | — | — |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,988 | — | — |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,141 | — | — |
| 2015 | 22 | #5,987 | — | — |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,945 | — | — |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,664 | — | — |
| 2012 | 13 | #9,005 | — | — |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,512 | — | — |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,558 | — | — |
| 2009 | 23 | #6,047 | — | — |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,751 | — | — |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,859 | — | — |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,509 | — | — |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,464 | — | — |
| 2004 | 26 | #5,042 | — | — |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,503 | — | — |
| 2002 | 35 | #3,782 | — | — |
| 2001 | 42 | #3,300 | — | — |
| 2000 | 40 | #3,389 | — | — |
| 1999 | 43 | #3,092 | — | — |
| 1998 | 46 | #2,881 | — | — |
| 1997 | 56 | #2,384 | — | — |
| 1996 | 70 | #2,011 | — | — |
| 1995 | 69 | #2,000 | — | — |
| 1994 | 69 | #2,040 | — | — |
| 1993 | 87 | #1,720 | — | — |
| 1992 | 79 | #1,825 | — | — |
| 1991 | 82 | #1,763 | — | — |
| 1990 | 85 | #1,729 | — | — |
| 1989 | 95 | #1,516 | — | — |
| 1988 | 115 | #1,276 | — | — |
| 1987 | 120 | #1,205 | — | — |
| 1986 | 107 | #1,268 | — | — |
| 1985 | 129 | #1,124 | — | — |
| 1984 | 151 | #959 | — | — |
| 1983 | 172 | #884 | — | — |
| 1982 | 177 | #874 | — | — |
| 1981 | 183 | #852 | — | — |
| 1980 | 181 | #857 | — | — |
| 1979 | 203 | #783 | — | — |
| 1978 | 222 | #713 | — | — |
| 1977 | 238 | #664 | — | — |
| 1976 | 241 | #644 | — | — |
| 1975 | 325 | #531 | — | — |
| 1974 | 307 | #548 | — | — |
| 1973 | 404 | #457 | — | — |
| 1972 | 503 | #399 | — | — |
| 1971 | 625 | #374 | 7 | #4,275 |
| 1970 | 767 | #341 | — | — |
| 1969 | 903 | #302 | — | — |
| 1968 | 1,088 | #251 | — | — |
| 1967 | 1,396 | #215 | 7 | #3,468 |
| 1966 | 1,938 | #173 | — | — |
| 1965 | 2,464 | #155 | 7 | #3,473 |
| 1964 | 2,895 | #140 | 10 | #2,797 |
| 1963 | 3,245 | #131 | 6 | #3,923 |
| 1962 | 3,496 | #129 | 12 | #2,475 |
| 1961 | 3,844 | #120 | 16 | #2,123 |
| 1960 | 4,435 | #108 | 10 | #2,818 |
| 1959 | 4,685 | #103 | 9 | #2,985 |
| 1958 | 5,081 | #94 | 14 | #2,238 |
| 1957 | 5,306 | #90 | 9 | #2,971 |
| 1956 | 5,642 | #82 | 14 | #2,237 |
| 1955 | 5,689 | #74 | 20 | #1,774 |
| 1954 | 5,763 | #75 | 10 | #2,691 |
| 1953 | 5,961 | #69 | 5 | #4,218 |
| 1952 | 6,151 | #65 | 11 | #2,471 |
| 1951 | 6,791 | #57 | 15 | #2,029 |
| 1950 | 6,695 | #53 | 11 | #2,408 |
| 1949 | 7,315 | #50 | 18 | #1,807 |
| 1948 | 7,876 | #46 | 16 | #1,929 |
| 1947 | 9,187 | #37 | 18 | #1,837 |
| 1946 | 8,048 | #41 | 24 | #1,462 |
| 1945 | 6,530 | #40 | 19 | #1,568 |
| 1944 | 7,022 | #40 | 30 | #1,230 |
| 1943 | 7,610 | #39 | 28 | #1,334 |
| 1942 | 7,793 | #37 | 26 | #1,374 |
| 1941 | 7,346 | #35 | 27 | #1,293 |
| 1940 | 7,416 | #33 | 34 | #1,151 |
| 1939 | 7,590 | #30 | 24 | #1,385 |
| 1938 | 7,644 | #28 | 32 | #1,164 |
| 1937 | 7,245 | #27 | 27 | #1,307 |
| 1936 | 7,374 | #25 | 21 | #1,495 |
| 1935 | 7,370 | #27 | 31 | #1,220 |
| 1934 | 7,180 | #28 | 22 | #1,486 |
| 1933 | 7,111 | #28 | 29 | #1,248 |
| 1932 | 7,308 | #30 | 25 | #1,415 |
| 1931 | 7,213 | #29 | 22 | #1,525 |
| 1930 | 7,770 | #28 | 27 | #1,417 |
| 1929 | 7,995 | #24 | 22 | #1,595 |
| 1928 | 7,924 | #26 | 24 | #1,554 |
| 1927 | 7,425 | #29 | 19 | #1,854 |
| 1926 | 6,921 | #33 | 16 | #2,055 |
| 1925 | 6,486 | #40 | 16 | #2,062 |
| 1924 | 6,267 | #44 | 18 | #1,954 |
| 1923 | 5,476 | #45 | 5 | #4,742 |
| 1922 | 4,935 | #53 | 10 | #2,956 |
| 1921 | 4,590 | #60 | 9 | #3,163 |
| 1920 | 3,852 | #72 | — | — |
| 1919 | 3,189 | #84 | — | — |
| 1918 | 3,326 | #80 | 7 | #3,626 |
| 1917 | 2,696 | #92 | 10 | #2,688 |
| 1916 | 2,427 | #95 | 5 | #4,351 |
| 1915 | 2,088 | #100 | 5 | #4,266 |
| 1914 | 1,407 | #113 | 7 | #2,847 |
| 1913 | 1,054 | #122 | 5 | #3,155 |
| 1912 | 779 | #140 | — | — |
| 1911 | 527 | #155 | — | — |
| 1910 | 392 | #175 | — | — |
| 1909 | 352 | #172 | — | — |
| 1908 | 288 | #194 | — | — |
| 1907 | 262 | #200 | — | — |
| 1906 | 195 | #225 | — | — |
| 1905 | 183 | #235 | — | — |
| 1904 | 181 | #229 | — | — |
| 1903 | 150 | #245 | — | — |
| 1902 | 164 | #237 | — | — |
| 1901 | 124 | #261 | — | — |
| 1900 | 124 | #297 | — | — |
| 1899 | 111 | #272 | — | — |
| 1898 | 108 | #299 | — | — |
| 1897 | 67 | #359 | — | — |
| 1896 | 69 | #350 | — | — |
| 1895 | 65 | #350 | — | — |
| 1894 | 56 | #375 | — | — |
| 1893 | 53 | #373 | — | — |
| 1892 | 31 | #495 | — | — |
| 1891 | 31 | #469 | — | — |
| 1890 | 42 | #391 | — | — |
| 1889 | 25 | #510 | — | — |
| 1888 | 29 | #466 | — | — |
| 1887 | 18 | #533 | — | — |
| 1886 | 20 | #506 | — | — |
| 1885 | 11 | #689 | — | — |
| 1884 | 16 | #537 | — | — |
| 1883 | 15 | #512 | — | — |
| 1882 | 8 | #725 | — | — |
| 1881 | 5 | #919 | — | — |
| 1880 | 6 | #820 | — | — |
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).