girls:
1.1k births since 1896
#4579 (20th percentile)
boys:
342.9k births since 1880
#100 (98th percentile)
overall:
344k births since 1880
#211 (97th percentile)
The name Philip is the #211 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 343,997 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 97.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 97.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #100 (97.8% percentile) for all time with 342,860 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,579 (19.9% percentile) for all time with 1,137 births since 1896.
Philip has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1896 for girls).
The name Philip has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Philip reached its peak popularity in 1950, achieving the 91.3% percentile (ranked #53) with 3,337 births per million. The name was most common in 1948, with 3,456 births per million (ranked 91.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Philip ranks #445 for boys (51.2% percentile) with 330 births per million, which is 9.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Philip reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 3.9% percentile (ranked #769) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 1896, with 24 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1996.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Philip".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Philip.
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Philip. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 46.0% confident that Philip is pronounced as FIH-luhp, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is FIH-lihp, at 42.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like F IH1 L AH0 P) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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