Philips

6,285 people in the United States were counted with the surname Philips in the 2020 census, making it the 5,355th most common in the country. That is about one person in 47,600.

By the numbers

People: 6,285
Rank: 5,355th
How common: 1 in 47,600
Per 100,000: 2.1

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

From Philip + genitive (mainly patronymic) suffix.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Philips described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 70.6%
Black, not Hispanic 14.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 6.4%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Philips

Bilal Philips (born 1947)Canadian Muslim scholar and Salafist
Gina Philips (born 1970)American actress
Frits Philips (1905–2005)Dutch entrepreneur
Emo Philips (born 1956)American comedian
Katherine Philips (1632–1664)Anglo-Welsh poet and translator
Gerard Philips (1858–1942)Dutch industrialist
Mary Philips (1901–1975)American stage actor
Anton Philips (1874–1951)Dutch Jewish industrialist and art collector

People named Philips with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Philips

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.