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The name Phil is a diminutive form of Philip. The table below indicates the number of times the name Phil has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Phil**
Use of the Name Phil for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
18,609	7,071	0	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Phil has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Phil last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1976, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Phil**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	557	12
1881	409	18
1882	534	13
1883	354	23
1884	427	19
1885	518	14
1886	426	18
1887	434	16
1888	477	17
1889	428	19
1890	401	21
1891	455	16
1892	440	20
1893	500	15
1894	458	19
1895	550	15
1896	514	17
1897	401	23
1898	482	19
1899	542	14
1900	512	22
1901	420	21
1902	435	23
1903	483	20
1904	477	21
1905	491	22
1906	558	18
1907	491	23
1908	498	26
1909	553	23
1910	499	32
1911	572	29
1912	529	57
1913	507	73
1914	485	101
1915	509	119
1916	551	108
1917	496	134
1918	482	153
1919	523	130
1920	537	130
1921	495	157
1922	534	138
1923	495	155
1924	500	153
1925	516	141
1926	485	154
1927	468	167
1928	492	152
1929	466	159
1930	432	183
1931	390	207
1932	381	217
1933	374	210
1934	329	271
1935	337	266
1936	319	285
1937	317	290
1938	313	309
1939	307	332
1940	297	353
1941	293	392
1942	303	404
1943	304	414
1944	296	406
1945	304	384
1946	275	544
1947	262	650
1948	279	579
1949	328	436
1950	357	359
1951	400	290
1952	440	255
1953	445	256
1954	471	237
1955	422	297
1956	416	334
1957	340	494
1958	319	580
1959	300	672
1960	314	625
1961	312	629
1962	317	616
1963	356	475
1964	357	478
1965	413	358
1966	462	271
1967	517	209
1968	544	192
1969	558	196
1970	658	154
1971	686	145
1972	727	120
1973	891	81
1974
1975	993	69
1976	959	76
Totals:		18,609		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Phil as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Phil appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 96 times during the last 125 years.

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