Philicia

Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Philicia has been given to 502 babies in the U.S. since 1960. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1991, with 34 recorded.

Babies named Philicia, 2010

1 in 739,000

Philicia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Philicia?

Philicia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2010, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2010
1 in 739,000
5 of 3,695,928 births
Among girls only
1 in 355,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2010
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
512,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Philicia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2010 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 512,366 children born in 2010 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Philicia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Philicias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Philicia was born before 1989 — so the typical Philicia is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
34.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
63.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
502
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 34.7% of all recorded uses (174).

Is Philicia rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1991 (34)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,268
1991

Spellings of Philicia

Philicia is not the most common spelling — Phylicia is, with 50.7% against Philicia's 10.7%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Philicia is used

Across 1910–2025, Philicia was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,169,261 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Philicia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Philicia around the world

Where Philicia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1991–2021
    #6,065
    in 2021

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Philicia by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,268
1991
Peak year
1991
34 that year
First recorded
1960
Last recorded
2010
All-time count
502
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Philicia

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Philicia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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