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Phillis vs Phinehas

American parents have registered 3,683 Phillises since 1880, against 585 Phinehases. But in 2025 it was Phinehas that was commoner, 51 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Phillis Phinehas

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 99 years and Phinehas for 25 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Phillis Phinehas
Total US births 3,683585
Most in one year 11851
Babies in 2025 under 551
Estimated living today 2,000580
Median age today 697
Peak year 19492025
Best rank 800th girls2,572nd boys
Rank in 2025 unranked2,572nd
First recorded 18821997
Girls / boys 3,677 / 60 / 585

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 Phinehases are over 7. That is 62 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: Phillis and Phinehas.