Philo

#10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births

Peak · boys
1881 · 5 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
390
since 1880

Philo over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Philo has never cracked the top 800 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201889peak #866, 1881boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#10,6956
2024#7,76510
2023#7,28911
2022#8,3009
2021#8,1669
2020#8,7398
2019#7,64310
2018#6,34513
2017#6,33813
2016#7,15711
2015#10,6446
2014#8,1309
2013#8,7898
2012
2011#12,2875
2010#10,7666
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2005#11,4725
2004
2003#9,5816
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1975#5,4645
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1958#3,9445
1957#3,5526
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1955#3,5056
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1951#3,0667
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1949#3,0197
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1943#2,5639
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1940#3,4595
1939
1938#2,8687
1937
1936#2,18411
1935#2,5299
1934#3,6795
1933#3,0047
1932#3,3616
1931
1930#2,60910
1929#3,9595
1928#3,3577
1927#3,4517
1926#3,3857
1925#2,9369
1924#3,0239
1923
1922#3,0149
1921#2,80410
1920#3,4897
1919#4,1685
1918#2,54311
1917#2,7329
1916#2,54310
1915#2,6219
1914#2,9156
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1912#2,5445
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1889#9745
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1881#8665
1880#9095
First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Philo was already there! It came in at #909, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1880–1913, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Philo
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 2,930 spots since 2024 (#7,765#10,695)
  • 1,956 spots since 2020 (#8,739#10,695)
  • 51 spots since 2015 (#10,644#10,695)
  • Biggest jump: 43 spots in 1881 (#909#866)
Rise & fade · boys
1 yr to peak
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1881 at #866 (5 births)
  • Births halved by 1882, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 3 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 1880–1881
Share of babies · boys
1 in 20,147
  • Highest: 1 in 20,147 boys born in 1881 were named Philo (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 284,679 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 20.8% of all boys named Philo (81) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s15#866 (1881)#916
1890s0
1900s0
1910s55#2,543 (1918)#2,867
1920s70#2,804 (1921)#3,269
1930s55#2,184 (1936)#2,891
1940s21#2,563 (1943)#3,014
1950s24#3,066 (1951)#3,517
1960s0
1970s5#5,464 (1975)#5,464
1980s0
1990s0
2000s11#9,581 (2003)#10,527
2010s81#6,338 (2017)#8,678
2020s53#7,289 (2023)#8,492

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Philo in 1889

boys
#974
5 births · 1 in 22,116 boys

Top boys' names in 1889

  1. #1John8,548
  2. #2William7,772
  3. #3James5,020
  4. #4George4,430
  5. #5Charles4,199
  6. #6Frank2,975
  7. #7Joseph2,729
  8. #8Harry2,559
  9. #9Robert2,513
  10. #10Edward2,299
  11. #974Philo5
More about 1889

boys

110,580 boys got a published name in 1889; 1 in 22,116 of them was named Philo, which outranked 12.3% of the 1,111 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 38.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Philo
  1. #878Williams6
  2. #878Winford6
  3. #878Wright6
  4. #974Philo5
  5. #974Abie5
  6. #974Alphonsus5
  7. #974Alta5

Tied with 137 names at #974; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1888
Risers
  1. 506Connie#1,031#525
  2. 483Hamilton#917#434
  3. 482Ballard#1,031#549
  4. 453Bertie#917#464
  5. 450Essie#1,031#581
Fallers
  1. 510Wendell#464#974
  2. 469Melton#505#974
  3. 462Enos#416#878
  4. 394Ruby#580#974
  5. 394Webb#580#974

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1889