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Phillipe vs Phillis

American parents have registered 3,683 Phillises since 1880, against 623 Phillipes. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Phillipe against Phillis, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Phillipe Phillis

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

Of the 124 years in which either name was published, Phillis for 83 years and Phillipe for 41 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Phillipe Phillis
Total US births 6233,683
Most in one year 24118
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 5802,000
Median age today 3669
Peak year 19801949
Best rank 2,162nd boys800th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19511882
Girls / boys 0 / 6233,677 / 6

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Phillises alive today are over 69; half the Phillipes are over 36. That is 33 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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