Phillicia

Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Phillicia has been given to 34 babies in the U.S. since 1984. 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 7 recorded.

Babies named Phillicia, 1993

1 in 628,000

Phillicia 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Phillicia?

Phillicia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1993, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1993
1 in 628,000
6 of 3,768,729 births
Among girls only
1 in 301,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1993
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
435,382 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Phillicia 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 1993 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 435,382 children born in 1993 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Phillicia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Phillicias were born

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

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
61.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
34
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1980s — 61.8% of all recorded uses (21).

Is Phillicia 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1991 (7)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#11,152
1991

Spellings of Phillicia

Phillicia is not the most common spelling — Phylicia is, with 81.6% against Phillicia's 1.2%.

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.

Phillicia around the world

Where Phillicia 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.

  • South Australia
    2012–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Phillicia 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
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Best rank ever
#11,152
1991
Peak year
1991
7 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
1993
All-time count
34
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Phillicia

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

Sibling names for Phillicia

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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