Phillipa

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Phillipa: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Phillipa: Recorded since 1968, with a gap of 12 years, its highest recorded position is #401, and it stood at #3,598 in 2023.

2registrars recorded it
33times a registrar ranked it
56years from first to last
#401highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Phillipa's record

Absent from every published list for 12 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2023

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#635
1997	#770
1998	#701
1999	#900
2000	#1095
2001	#1063
2002	#1192
2003	#1224
2004	#1617
2005	#1295
2006	#1660
2007	#1384
2008	#2150
2009	#1909
2010	#2235
2011	#1545
2012	#1720
2013	#2313
2014	#2058
2015	#2328
2016	#2008
2017	#1995
2018	#2499
2019	#2643
2020	#2843
2021	#2942
2022	#2673
2023	#3598

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 5 of the 45 years from 1968 to 2012.

In 2012: #907 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1720 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1968–2023 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1968
First recorded at #401 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1968 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1968–2012
Highest recorded position: #401 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1968 (recorded 1968–2012).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2023
Most recently recorded at #3598 among girls in England and Wales, in 2023.
England and Wales · Girls

Phillipa appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 28 ranked years and 446 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1968.

Phillipa across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Phillipa's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#401 (1968)	#401 (1968)	#907 (2012)	5 of 45	18 (1968–2012)	5 (1984)
England and Wales · Girls	#635 (1996)	#635 (1996)	#3598 (2023)	28 of 28	446 (1996–2023)	38 (1996)

Phillipa by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Phillipa in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	126	4 of 10	32
2000sbusiest	160	10 of 10	16
2010s	129	10 of 10	13
2020s	31	4 of 10	8

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 16 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Phillipa appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1968 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #401 in Republic of Ireland in 1968.

Phillipa's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2023	England and Wales	female	#3598	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2673	9	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2942	8	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2843	8	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2643	9	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2499	10	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1995	14	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2008	14	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2328	11	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2058	13	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2313	11	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1720	17	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1545	19	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2235	11	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1909	13	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2150	11	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1384	19	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1660	14	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1295	18	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1617	13	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1224	18	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1192	17	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1063	19	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1095	18	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#900	24	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#701	34	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#770	30	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#635	38	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#907	3	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	female	#456	4	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#414	5	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	female	#466	3	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	female	#401	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1968 and 2023, ranked in 32 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #401, first reached in 1968.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 38 births, registered in England and Wales in 1996.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 12 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Philippos · #1860, 13y
Phillip · #14, 74y
Phillippa · #736, 23y
Philomena · #72, 61y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Richelle · #401, 30y
Humza · #399, 29y
Jonjo · #403, 29y
Arjan · #398, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Allyson · #401, 15y
Celeste · #401, 30y
Luisa · #401, 31y
Richelle · #401, 30y

Phillipa was ranked #401 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1968. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Phillipa and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Phillipa without appearing here.

Phillipa moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2499 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2643 and #5591.
Belinda Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2313 and #2062 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #2058 and #4684.
Suzanne Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2942 and #2942 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #2673 and #3970.
Donna Compare
In 2008 they stood at #2150 and #1914 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1909 and #3031.

Moved ahead of Phillipa

Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2843 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2942 and #1286.
Dylan Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2673 and #3148 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #3598 and #1959.
Hayden Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2673 and #3148 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #3598 and #2346.
Janet Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2673 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #3598 and #2346.

Moved the opposite way to Phillipa

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Phillipa went from #635 to #3598 while Ada went from #2683 to #37.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Phillipa went from #635 to #3598 while Alma went from #2096 to #228.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Phillipa went from #635 to #3598 while Alyssa went from #783 to #241.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Phillipa went from #635 to #3598 while Amalie went from #2096 to #865.

Moved the same way as Phillipa

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Phillipa went from #635 to #3598 and Abigail from #21 to #134.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Phillipa went from #635 to #3598 and Aimee from #70 to #1206.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Phillipa went from #635 to #3598 and Aisling from #440 to #2504.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Phillipa went from #635 to #3598 and Alex from #161 to #2504.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1968 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #401 in Republic of Ireland in 1968. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Phillipa

Phillipa at a glance

What stands out in Phillipa's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Phillipa across 2 official records

Phillipa by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Phillipa appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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Also first recorded in the 1960s

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Phillipa at a glance

What stands out in Phillipa's record

Phillipa across 2 official records

Phillipa by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Phillipa appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Phillipa

Phillipa and the names beside it

Phillipa moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Phillipa

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