How popular is “Phyllis” in the USA?

Number of people named “Phyllis” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Phyllis” 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 “Phyllis” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Phyllis” by birth year

This chart shows how “Phyllis” 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	6	0.000029779	6		100%
1881	5	0.000025949	5		100%
1882	8	0.000036112	8		100%
1883	15	0.000069142	15		100%
1884	16	0.000065719	16		100%
1885	11	0.000045671	11		100%
1886	20	0.000078334	20		100%
1887	18	0.000072759	18		100%
1888	29	0.000096836	29		100%
1889	25	0.000086521	25		100%
1890	42	0.000139349	42		100%
1891	31	0.000108137	31		100%
1892	31	0.000092711	31		100%
1893	53	0.000162965	53		100%
1894	56	0.000165343	56		100%
1895	65	0.000185175	65		100%
1896	69	0.000193016	69		100%
1897	67	0.000193108	67		100%
1898	108	0.000283126	108		100%
1899	111	0.000327208	111		100%
1900	124	0.000275398	124		100%
1901	124	0.000358576	124		100%
1902	164	0.000424065	164		100%
1903	150	0.000393494	150		100%
1904	181	0.000448592	181		100%
1905	183	0.000431683	183		100%
1906	195	0.000455128	195		100%
1907	262	0.000562969	262		100%
1908	288	0.00058938	288		100%
1909	352	0.000688544	352		100%
1910	392	0.000663607	392		100%
1911	527	0.00081797	527		100%
1912	779	0.000788412	779		100%
1913	1059	0.000931308	1054	5	99%
1914	1414	0.000998345	1407	7	99%
1915	2093	0.001142202	2088	5	100%
1916	2432	0.001257226	2427	5	100%
1917	2706	0.001348449	2696	10	99%
1918	3333	0.001535159	3326	7	100%
1919	3189	0.001511199	3189		100%
1920	3852	0.001702434	3852		100%
1921	4599	0.001970011	4590	9	100%
1922	4945	0.002160185	4935	10	100%
1923	5481	0.002380476	5476	5	100%
1924	6285	0.002638971	6267	18	99%
1925	6502	0.002786609	6486	16	100%
1926	6937	0.003021467	6921	16	100%
1927	7444	0.003209509	7425	19	99%
1928	7948	0.003515355	7924	24	99%
1929	8017	0.003657122	7995	22	99%
1930	7797	0.003506968	7770	27	99%
1931	7235	0.003438054	7213	22	99%
1932	7333	0.00347323	7308	25	99%
1933	7140	0.003570987	7111	29	99%
1934	7202	0.003467808	7180	22	99%
1935	7400	0.003540839	7369	31	99%
1936	7395	0.003559433	7374	21	99%
1937	7272	0.003413011	7245	27	99%
1938	7676	0.003469263	7644	32	99%
1939	7614	0.003455503	7590	24	99%
1940	7450	0.003235354	7416	34	99%
1941	7373	0.003026155	7346	27	99%
1942	7819	0.002862196	7793	26	99%
1943	7637	0.002705701	7609	28	99%
1944	7052	0.002621484	7022	30	99%
1945	6549	0.00246861	6530	19	99%
1946	8072	0.002526205	8048	24	99%
1947	9205	0.002555296	9187	18	100%
1948	7892	0.002285868	7876	16	100%
1949	7333	0.002104296	7315	18	100%
1950	6706	0.001914163	6695	11	100%
1951	6806	0.001847579	6791	15	100%
1952	6162	0.001622431	6151	11	100%
1953	5967	0.001548405	5962	5	100%
1954	5773	0.001450245	5763	10	100%
1955	5710	0.001422139	5690	20	99%
1956	5656	0.001371804	5642	14	100%
1957	5314	0.001264593	5305	9	100%
1958	5097	0.001232975	5083	14	99%
1959	4693	0.00112867	4684	9	100%
1960	4447	0.001070582	4437	10	100%
1961	3857	0.000931125	3841	16	99%
1962	3508	0.000869313	3496	12	99%
1963	3252	0.000821586	3246	6	100%
1964	2905	0.000747247	2895	10	99%
1965	2471	0.000681571	2464	7	99%
1966	1938	0.000557593	1938		100%
1967	1403	0.000413267	1396	7	99%
1968	1087	0.000321749	1087		100%
1969	904	0.00026012	904		100%
1970	767	0.000212671	767		100%
1971	632	0.00018413	625	7	98%
1972	503	0.000160038	503		100%
1973	404	0.000133913	404		100%
1974	307	0.000100987	307		100%
1975	325	0.000107637	325		100%
1976	241	0.000079425	241		100%
1977	238	0.000074925	238		100%
1978	222	0.000069946	222		100%
1979	204	0.000061317	204		100%
1980	181	0.000052547	181		100%
1981	182	0.000052611	182		100%
1982	178	0.000050742	178		100%
1983	172	0.000049663	172		100%
1984	151	0.000043282	151		100%
1985	129	0.000036143	129		100%
1986	107	0.000030081	107		100%
1987	120	0.000033281	120		100%
1988	115	0.000031123	115		100%
1989	95	0.000024711	95		100%
1990	85	0.000021505	85		100%
1991	82	0.000021051	82		100%
1992	79	0.000020566	79		100%
1993	87	0.000023075	87		100%
1994	69	0.00001856	69		100%
1995	69	0.000018841	69		100%
1996	70	0.000019193	70		100%
1997	56	0.000015445	56		100%
1998	46	0.000012506	46		100%
1999	43	0.000011641	43		100%
2000	40	0.000010582	40		100%
2001	42	0.00001122	42		100%
2002	35	0.000009363	35		100%
2003	29	0.000007627	29		100%
2004	26	0.000006805	26		100%
2005	31	0.000008063	31		100%
2006	25	0.000006319	25		100%
2007	24	0.000006003	24		100%
2008	20	0.000005088	20		100%
2009	23	0.000006021	23		100%
2010	25	0.000006765	25		100%
2011	20	0.000005468	20		100%
2012	13	0.000003554	13		100%
2013	19	0.000005212	19		100%
2014	22	0.000005936	22		100%
2015	22	0.000005944	22		100%
2016	21	0.000005724	21		100%
2017	21	0.000005872	21		100%
2018	18	0.00000512	18		100%
2019	15	0.000004322	15		100%
2020	20	0.000005987	20		100%
2021	11	0.000003247	11		100%
2022	15	0.000004434	15		100%
2023	7	0.000002114	7		100%
2024	13	0.000003906	13		100%

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