Philippa
#2,778 for girls in 2025, 61 births
- Peak · girls
- 1918 · 19 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,815since 1910
Philippa over time
Rank among girls' names. Philippa has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,778 | 61 |
| 2024 | #2,607 | 67 |
| 2023 | #2,614 | 67 |
| 2022 | #2,425 | 75 |
| 2021 | #2,608 | 66 |
| 2020 | #2,779 | 59 |
| 2019 | #3,172 | 50 |
| 2018 | #2,584 | 67 |
| 2017 | #2,464 | 73 |
| 2016 | #2,463 | 74 |
| 2015 | #2,846 | 61 |
| 2014 | #2,683 | 65 |
| 2013 | #3,573 | 43 |
| 2012 | #3,213 | 51 |
| 2011 | #3,132 | 53 |
| 2010 | #5,414 | 25 |
| 2009 | #7,066 | 18 |
| 2008 | #7,408 | 17 |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 |
| 2006 | #7,142 | 17 |
| 2005 | #8,883 | 12 |
| 2004 | #7,391 | 15 |
| 2003 | #9,671 | 10 |
| 2002 | #6,698 | 16 |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 |
| 2000 | #10,745 | 8 |
| 1999 | #6,484 | 15 |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 |
| 1997 | #6,483 | 14 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 |
| 1994 | #6,672 | 13 |
| 1993 | #7,498 | 11 |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 |
| 1990 | #7,303 | 11 |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 |
| 1988 | #3,893 | 23 |
| 1987 | #5,923 | 12 |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 |
| 1985 | #5,678 | 12 |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 |
| 1983 | #6,212 | 10 |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 |
| 1981 | #5,885 | 11 |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 |
| 1977 | #6,892 | 8 |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 |
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 |
| 1973 | — | |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 |
| 1971 | #5,543 | 9 |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 |
| 1969 | #4,418 | 11 |
| 1968 | — | |
| 1967 | #4,300 | 10 |
| 1966 | #3,400 | 14 |
| 1965 | #3,549 | 13 |
| 1964 | #3,379 | 15 |
| 1963 | #3,176 | 16 |
| 1962 | #4,263 | 10 |
| 1961 | #3,793 | 12 |
| 1960 | #3,512 | 13 |
| 1959 | #3,827 | 11 |
| 1958 | #3,925 | 10 |
| 1957 | #3,489 | 12 |
| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 |
| 1955 | #3,095 | 14 |
| 1954 | #4,655 | 7 |
| 1953 | #2,921 | 14 |
| 1952 | #3,201 | 12 |
| 1951 | #4,385 | 7 |
| 1950 | #3,662 | 9 |
| 1949 | #4,673 | 6 |
| 1948 | #2,255 | 19 |
| 1947 | #3,706 | 9 |
| 1946 | #3,430 | 9 |
| 1945 | #4,025 | 6 |
| 1944 | #3,139 | 9 |
| 1943 | — | |
| 1942 | — | |
| 1941 | — | |
| 1940 | #3,863 | 6 |
| 1939 | — | |
| 1938 | #3,450 | 7 |
| 1937 | #3,800 | 6 |
| 1936 | #2,857 | 9 |
| 1935 | #3,431 | 7 |
| 1934 | #2,923 | 9 |
| 1933 | #2,868 | 9 |
| 1932 | #3,901 | 6 |
| 1931 | — | |
| 1930 | — | |
| 1929 | — | |
| 1928 | #4,195 | 6 |
| 1927 | #3,875 | 7 |
| 1926 | — | |
| 1925 | #3,664 | 8 |
| 1924 | #3,665 | 8 |
| 1923 | #4,967 | 5 |
| 1922 | #3,379 | 9 |
| 1921 | #2,378 | 15 |
| 1920 | #2,899 | 11 |
| 1919 | #3,452 | 8 |
| 1918 | #1,963 | 19 |
| 1917 | #2,693 | 11 |
| 1916 | #3,919 | 6 |
| 1915 | #4,274 | 5 |
| 1914 | — | |
| 1913 | — | |
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| 1911 | — | |
| 1910 | #2,398 | 5 |
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| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five girls were named Philippa! It came in at #2,398, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1910–1915, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Philippa
- 171 spots since 2024 (#2,607 → #2,778)
- 1 spot since 2020 (#2,779 → #2,778)
- 68 spots since 2015 (#2,846 → #2,778)
- Debuted 1910
- Peaked 1918 at #1,963 (19 births)
- Births halved by 1919, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 21,868 girls born in 2022 were named Philippa (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 26,349 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,963 in 1918, was only 1 in 60,928 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 31.0% of all girls named Philippa (562) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 54 | #1,963 (1918) | #3,117 |
| 1920s | 69 | #2,378 (1921) | #3,628 |
| 1930s | 53 | #2,857 (1936) | #3,319 |
| 1940s | 64 | #2,255 (1948) | #3,584 |
| 1950s | 101 | #2,921 (1953) | #3,911 |
| 1960s | 114 | #3,176 (1963) | #3,754 |
| 1970s | 61 | #5,543 (1971) | #7,480 |
| 1980s | 105 | #3,893 (1988) | #6,894 |
| 1990s | 104 | #6,483 (1997) | #8,366 |
| 2000s | 133 | #6,698 (2002) | #8,524 |
| 2010s | 562 | #2,463 (2016) | #3,154 |
| 2020s | 395 | #2,425 (2022) | #2,635 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Philippa in 1910
Top girls' names in 1910
More about 1910
girls
396,503 girls got a published name in 1910; 1 in 79,301 of them was named Philippa, which outranked 14.1% of the 2,790 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 392 names at #2,398; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.