# Phillips (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/phillips/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,331 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,331 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 9 | 6,364 |
| 1997 | 10 | 5,984 |
| 1998 | 8 | 7,357 |
| 1999 | 6 | 9,578 |
| 2000 | 7 | 8,890 |
| 2001 | 12 | 5,935 |
| 2002 | 5 | 12,013 |
| 2003 | 14 | 5,478 |
| 2005 | 5 | 12,858 |
| 2010 | 5 | 13,756 |
| 2015 | 5 | 13,539 |
| 2018 | 7 | 10,465 |
| 2019 | 8 | 9,525 |
| 2021 | 5 | 13,588 |
| 2023 | 7 | 10,526 |

## People named Phillips

- George Phillips Bond, American astronomer (1825 – 1865)
- Phillips Idowu, British triple jumper
- Phillips Holmes, American actor (1907–1942)
- Phillips Smalley, American actor and film director (1875–1939)
- Phillips Brooks, American clergyman and author, hymnwriter (1835–1893)
- Phillips Lee Goldsborough, American politician (1865-1946)
- Phillips Lord, American actor (1902-1975)
- Richard Feynman, American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
- H. P. Lovecraft, American writer and editor (1890–1937)
- Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist (1927–2008)
- John Naber, American swimmer
- John P. Marquand, American writer (1893–1960)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.