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Phillip vs Phillips

American parents have registered 312,891 Phillips since 1880, against 1,331 Phillipses. Phillip is still ahead, with 425 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Phillip against Phillips, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Phillip Phillips

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Phillip has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1909, when Phillip had 146 and Phillips had 8.

Side by side

  Phillip Phillips
Total US births 312,8911,331
Most in one year 6,07632
Babies in 2025 425under 5
Estimated living today 227,000690
Median age today 5152
Peak year 19601949
Best rank 66th boys1,275th boys
Rank in 2025 651stunranked
First recorded 18801904
Girls / boys 1,330 / 311,5610 / 1,331

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Phillip and Phillips.