Phillips

At the 2020 census, 343,656 Americans bore the surname Phillips — 53rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 870.

By the numbers

People: 343,656
Rank: 53rd
How common: 1 in 870
Per 100,000: 115.0

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 73.6%
Black, not Hispanic 16.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Phillips

William Daniel Phillips (born 1948)physics Nobel laureate
Todd Phillips (born 1970)American filmmaker
Kalvin Phillips (born 1995)English association football player
Michelle Phillips (born 1944)American singer and actress
Kevin Phillips (born 1973)English footballer
Peter Phillips (born 1977)son of Anne, Princess Royal (born 1977); nephew of Charles III; first grandchild of Elizabeth II
Lou Diamond Phillips (born 1962)American actor
Siân Phillips (born 1933)British Actress

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

Surnames like Phillips

Also a first name

Phillips has been given to 1,331 American babies as a first name since 1904, peaking in 1949. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.