Phillis
Recorded 1882–2000 · United States
Phillis was most popular in 1949, when 118 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,387 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,683 people named Phillis.
Phillis over time
How old is the name Phillis?
Phillis first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1882, which makes it about 143 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 99 of the 144 years since. It was last recorded in 2000.
How many people are named Phillis?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,683 American births named Phillis between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,049 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Phillis in 2025?
Phillis was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Phillis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Phillis is a girl’s name — 99.8% of the 3,683 Americans given it were girls and 0.2% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Phillis?
Roughly 2,049 Americans named Phillis are alive today — 56% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 70 years old, and half are between 62 and 78.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Phillis is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org