as a Last Name
- 400,502
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Phillips
Meaning & Origins
English, Dutch, North German, and Jewish (western Ashkenazic): patronymic from the personal name Philip. In North America this name has also absorbed cognate names from other European languages, for example Italian Filippi, Polish Filipowicz.
| 46th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 400,502
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Virgin Island
- has the most people named Phillips per capita
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