Phillippa
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Phillippa has been given to 66 babies in the U.S. since 1917. 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 1960, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Phillippa, 2016
1 in 734,000
Phillippa over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Phillippa?
Phillippa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2016
- 1 in 734,000
- 5 of 3,669,531 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 354,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2016
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 508,706 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Phillippa sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Phillippa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Phillippas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Phillippa was born before 1958 — so the typical Phillippa is around 67 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 25.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 7.6%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 44
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 25.8% of all recorded uses (17).
Is Phillippa 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 1960 (12)
- Years since peak
- 65
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.6% average annual change
Spellings of Phillippa
Phillippa is not the most common spelling — Philippa is, with 56.5% against Phillippa's 2.1%.
Phillippa around the world
Where Phillippa 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.
- England & Wales1996–2024#4,844in 2024
- South Australia1944–1998#710in 1998
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Phillippa by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Phillippa
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Phillippa
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.