Phillips
Phillips reached its high-water mark in 1949 at number 1,275, and has been recorded 1,331 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2023. About 690 Phillipses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 52.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Phillips
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,331
- Estimated living today
- 690
- Median age today
- 52
- Peak year
- 1949
- Best rank
- 1,275th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1904
How old the living Phillipses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,331 babies given the name since 1904, about 690 are alive — 52 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1973 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Phillipss
- George Phillips Bond (1825–1865)American astronomer
- Phillips Idowu (born 1978)British triple jumper
- Phillips Holmes (1907–1942)American actor
- Phillips Brooks (1835–1893)American clergyman and author, hymnwriter
- Phillips Smalley (1865–1939)American actor and film director
- Phillips Lee Goldsborough (1865–1946)American politician
People named Phillips with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Phillips is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1949
The most popular boys’ names the year Phillips peaked:
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Phillips against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.