Phillippe
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Phillippe has been given to 218 babies in the U.S. since 1930. 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 1989, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Phillippe, 2015
1 in 740,000
Phillippe 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Phillippe?
Phillippe had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2015
- 1 in 740,000
- 5 of 3,701,574 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 383,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2015
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 513,148 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Phillippe sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2015 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Phillippe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Phillippes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Phillippe was born before 1981 — so the typical Phillippe is around 44 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 35.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 20.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 202
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 35.3% of all recorded uses (77).
Is Phillippe 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
- —
- 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 1989 (13)
- Years since peak
- 36
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.4% average annual change
Spellings of Phillippe
Phillippe is not the most common spelling — Phillip is, with 98.0% against Phillippe's 0.07%.
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.
Phillippe around the world
Where Phillippe 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.
- France1973–1973#1,929in 1973
- Canada1991–1995#1,556in 1995
- South Australia1961–1961#561in 1961
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Phillippe by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Phillippe
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Phillippe
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.