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How popular is “Philip” in the USA?

Number of people named “Philip” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Philip” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Philip” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Philip” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Philip” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Philip” by birth year

This chart shows how “Philip” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 186 0.00092315 186 -100%
1881 156 0.000809599 156 -100%
1882 182 0.000821548 182 -100%
1883 166 0.000765167 166 -100%
1884 161 0.000661297 161 -100%
1885 163 0.000676759 163 -100%
1886 187 0.000732426 187 -100%
1887 161 0.000650789 161 -100%
1888 196 0.000654481 196 -100%
1889 183 0.000633336 183 -100%
1890 192 0.000637025 192 -100%
1891 198 0.000690682 198 -100%
1892 239 0.000714768 239 -100%
1893 208 0.000639561 208 -100%
1894 214 0.000631846 214 -100%
1895 211 0.000601105 211 -100%
1896 224 0.000626601 6 218 -95%
1897 200 0.00057644 200 -100%
1898 244 0.000639656 244 -100%
1899 223 0.000657363 223 -100%
1900 259 0.000575226 259 -100%
1901 232 0.000670885 232 -100%
1902 226 0.000584383 226 -100%
1903 250 0.000655824 250 -100%
1904 266 0.000659256 266 -100%
1905 234 0.000551988 234 -100%
1906 280 0.000653517 280 -100%
1907 356 0.00076495 356 -100%
1908 319 0.00065282 319 -100%
1909 401 0.000784392 6 395 -97%
1910 425 0.000719472 7 418 -97%
1911 612 0.0009499 612 -100%
1912 1237 0.001251946 1237 -100%
1913 1492 0.001312098 8 1484 -99%
1914 1870 0.001320301 1870 -100%
1915 2337 0.001275358 9 2328 -99%
1916 2416 0.001248955 7 2409 -99%
1917 2552 0.001271708 8 2544 -99%
1918 2746 0.00126479 13 2733 -99%
1919 2537 0.00120223 6 2531 -100%
1920 2713 0.00119904 13 2700 -99%
1921 2714 0.001162559 11 2703 -99%
1922 2784 0.001216169 15 2769 -99%
1923 2800 0.00121608 17 2783 -99%
1924 2933 0.00123152 12 2921 -99%
1925 2685 0.00115073 10 2675 -99%
1926 2727 0.001187767 19 2708 -99%
1927 2702 0.001164978 25 2677 -98%
1928 2745 0.001214098 19 2726 -99%
1929 2623 0.001196536 17 2606 -99%
1930 2674 0.001202723 19 2655 -99%
1931 2658 0.001263075 10 2648 -99%
1932 2640 0.00125042 15 2625 -99%
1933 2543 0.001271852 13 2530 -99%
1934 2789 0.001342921 5 2784 -100%
1935 3069 0.001468491 5 3064 -100%
1936 3048 0.001467093 15 3033 -99%
1937 3177 0.00149108 15 3162 -99%
1938 3182 0.001438144 10 3172 -99%
1939 3187 0.001446373 13 3174 -99%
1940 3681 0.001598569 7 3674 -100%
1941 4175 0.001713576 9 4166 -100%
1942 4615 0.001689351 12 4603 -99%
1943 4487 0.001589692 14 4473 -99%
1944 3992 0.001483971 3992 -100%
1945 4124 0.001554519 13 4111 -99%
1946 5107 0.001598281 14 5093 -99%
1947 6245 0.001733604 9 6236 -100%
1948 6173 0.00178797 12 6161 -100%
1949 6241 0.001790933 17 6224 -99%
1950 6082 0.001736049 12 6070 -100%
1951 6105 0.001657284 8 6097 -100%
1952 6163 0.001622694 9 6154 -100%
1953 6288 0.001631702 9 6279 -100%
1954 6284 0.001578614 5 6279 -100%
1955 6174 0.001537703 12 6162 -100%
1956 6105 0.001480705 6105 -100%
1957 6028 0.001434506 16 6012 -99%
1958 5841 0.00141295 10 5831 -100%
1959 5880 0.001414144 18 5862 -99%
1960 5518 0.001328417 10 5508 -100%
1961 5306 0.001280931 19 5287 -99%
1962 5080 0.001258868 10 5070 -100%
1963 4775 0.001206356 17 4758 -99%
1964 4988 0.001283052 13 4975 -99%
1965 4289 0.001183026 10 4279 -100%
1966 3966 0.00114108 12 3954 -99%
1967 3801 0.001119622 16 3785 -99%
1968 3642 0.001078021 20 3622 -99%
1969 3553 0.001022351 13 3540 -99%
1970 3539 0.00098128 18 3521 -99%
1971 3318 0.000966683 16 3302 -99%
1972 2788 0.000887052 10 2778 -99%
1973 3013 0.000998712 15 2998 -99%
1974 2987 0.000982566 18 2969 -99%
1975 3030 0.001003513 20 3010 -99%
1976 2963 0.000976502 20 2943 -99%
1977 3108 0.000978437 16 3092 -99%
1978 3317 0.001045096 19 3298 -99%
1979 3482 0.001046589 22 3460 -99%
1980 3582 0.001039917 20 3562 -99%
1981 3611 0.00104383 30 3581 -98%
1982 3668 0.001045621 25 3643 -99%
1983 3508 0.001012895 19 3489 -99%
1984 3537 0.001013829 19 3518 -99%
1985 3772 0.001056846 36 3736 -98%
1986 3690 0.001037368 25 3665 -99%
1987 3861 0.00107083 22 3839 -99%
1988 3394 0.000918528 21 3373 -99%
1989 3341 0.000869046 15 3326 -99%
1990 3152 0.000797474 10 3142 -99%
1991 2759 0.000708296 10 2749 -99%
1992 2439 0.000634946 5 2434 -100%
1993 2270 0.000602077 2270 -100%
1994 1903 0.000511882 7 1896 -99%
1995 1757 0.000479772 1757 -100%
1996 1730 0.000474337 5 1725 -99%
1997 1661 0.000458112 1661 -100%
1998 1498 0.000407264 1498 -100%
1999 1326 0.000358973 1326 -100%
2000 1312 0.000347099 1312 -100%
2001 1221 0.000326175 1221 -100%
2002 1201 0.00032127 1201 -100%
2003 1075 0.000282722 1075 -100%
2004 1019 0.000266689 1019 -100%
2005 993 0.000258268 993 -100%
2006 909 0.000229767 909 -100%
2007 881 0.000220378 881 -100%
2008 817 0.000207853 817 -100%
2009 765 0.000200253 765 -100%
2010 699 0.000189137 699 -100%
2011 696 0.000190279 696 -100%
2012 715 0.000195496 715 -100%
2013 769 0.000210935 769 -100%
2014 799 0.000215574 799 -100%
2015 706 0.000190764 706 -100%
2016 712 0.000194074 712 -100%
2017 729 0.000203848 729 -100%
2018 693 0.000197105 693 -100%
2019 696 0.000200522 696 -100%
2020 658 0.000196972 658 -100%
2021 675 0.000199236 675 -100%
2022 618 0.000182671 618 -100%
2023 605 0.000182713 605 -100%
2024 586 0.000176055 586 -100%

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