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Phylicia

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Phylicia has been given to 2,381 babies in the U.S. since 1968. 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 1987, with 289 recorded.

Babies named Phylicia, 2014

1 in 618,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Phylicia: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Phylicia means

Phylicia is a given name.

The naming story behind Phylicia

Wikidata records Phylicia as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q56479178, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,381 girls were recorded with the name Phylicia between 1968 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 289 in 1987; its best national rank was #652 in 1987.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Phylicia?

Phylicia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 618,000
6 of 3,706,812 births
Among girls only
1 in 298,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
428,229 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Phylicia 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 2014 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 428,229 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Phylicia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Phylicias were born

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

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
50.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
48.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,381
People you could plausibly meet
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1980s — 50.5% of all recorded uses (1,203).

Is Phylicia 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 1987 (289)
Years since peak
38
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#652
1987

Spellings of Phylicia

Phylicia is the most-used spelling, taking 82.6% of the 2,883 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Phylicia is used

Across 1910–2025, Phylicia was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 86,169 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 50,000
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 50,000
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 50,000
  4. 4New York1 in 50,000
  5. 5Virginia1 in 50,000
  6. 6Alabama1 in 100,000
  7. 7Arizona1 in 100,000
  8. 8California1 in 100,000

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. Phylicia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Phylicia around the world

Where Phylicia 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
    1988–2007
    #6,606
    in 2007
  • Canada
    1991–1995
    #2,277
    in 1995

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

Notable people named Phylicia

People whose public names include Phylicia, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Phylicia 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
#652
1987
Peak year
1987
289 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
2,381
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Phylicia

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

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Names with a curve like Phylicia

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Phylicia, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Phylicia

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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