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Phyliss

About 2,406 American babies have been named Phyliss since 1909, most of them around 1951. It has not appeared in the national data since 1983. About 1,200 Phylisses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 72.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Phyliss

By the numbers

Total US births
2,406
Estimated living today
1,200
Median age today
72
Peak year
1951
Best rank
1,109th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1909

How old the living Phylisses are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,406 babies given the name since 1909, about 1,200 are alive — 51 in every hundred. Roughly 0 of them are children and 900 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1953 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.

Where Phyliss is most common

  • NY0.61
  • IL0.42
  • OH0.37
  • LA0.30
  • TN0.24
  • KY0.22
  • NC0.22
  • PA0.20
  • GA0.17
  • KS0.14

Across the country Phyliss is recorded 0.15 times per 100,000 births, so these are the states above that line. Only states with 50 or more recorded Phylisses are ranked here: below that a handful of births makes a rate that moves on chance alone.

  • NY157
  • IL69
  • OH57
  • PA36
  • NC21
  • TX21
  • LA18
  • TN17
  • GA16
  • KY13

Counts favour the big states, which is why the same few lead this list for almost every name.

Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.

Names of 1951

The most popular girls’ names the year Phyliss peaked:

All the names of 1951

Related names

Phyliss 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.