girls:
1.3k births since 1918
#4394 (23rd percentile)
boys:
310.7k births since 1880
#111 (98th percentile)
overall:
312k births since 1880
#245 (97th percentile)
The name Phillip is the #245 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 311,991 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 96.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 96.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #111 (97.6% percentile) for all time with 310,660 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,394 (23.1% percentile) for all time with 1,331 births since 1918.
Phillip has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1918 for girls).
The name Phillip has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Phillip reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 90.6% percentile (ranked #68) with 2,468 births per million. The name was most common in 1949, with 2,886 births per million (ranked 88.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1987, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Phillip ranks #524 for boys (42.5% percentile) with 245 births per million, which is 8.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Phillip reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 4.3% percentile (ranked #766) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 23 births per million (ranked 4.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2005.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Phillip".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Philip. View all variations of Philip.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Phillip", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 13 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Philip" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Philip..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Phillip. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.0% confident that Phillip is pronounced as FIH-lihp, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is FIH-luhp, at 25.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Phillip? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Phillip. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Phillip, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
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 IH0 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.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker