Phyllis
Phyllis is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 13 births. Its best rank was 24th, in 1929.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 130.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19479,187 births
- Best rank
- #24in 1929
- Since 1880
- 322,490people given the name
The story in the numbers
322,490 girls have been named Phyllis in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 9,187 births — 0.52% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 13 births in 2024, against 9,187 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1940, and the 1940s alone account for 24%. It has spent 105 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 44 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Phyllis | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 153 | |
| 1890s | 633 | |
| 1900s | 2,023 | |
| 1910s | 17,885 | |
| 1920s | 61,871 | |
| 1930s | 73,804 | |
| 1940s | 76,142 | |
| 1950s | 57,766 | |
| 1960s | 25,704 | |
| 1970s | 3,836 | |
| 1980s | 1,430 | |
| 1990s | 686 | |
| 2000s | 295 | |
| 2010s | 196 | |
| 2020s | 66 |
In 1947, its biggest year
Phyllis was the 37th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1947 were Linda, Mary, Patricia, Barbara and Sandra. See all of 1947.
Names that rose and fell with Phyllis
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Earnestinepeak 1944
- Margenepeak 1951
- Neldapeak 1938
- Earlenepeak 1947
- Vernellpeak 1924
- Arlenepeak 1934
- Earleenpeak 1927
- Verdellpeak 1932
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.