Phylips Surname

8,968,613th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 4 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Ivory Coast

Phylips Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Phylips Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795
Ivory Coast11:23,071,23276,679
Nigeria11:177,142,758748,972
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Wales101:156,8426,008
England61:4,062,562101,150
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States11:50,218,684817,899

Phylips (12) may also be a first name.

Phylips Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Phylips Come From? nationality or country of origin

Phylips occurs in The United States more than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Phylips? popularity and diffusion

Phylips is the 8,968,613th most numerous last name world-wide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 1,821,886,479 people. This surname occurs mostly in Africa, where 50 percent of Phylips are found; 50 percent are found in West Africa and 50 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 3,306,491st most frequently occurring first name internationally, borne by 12 people.

Phylips is most frequently used in The United States, where it is carried by 2 people, or 1 in 181,229,466. In The United States Phylips is most frequent in: California, where 50 percent live and Ohio, where 50 percent live. Excluding The United States Phylips occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in The Ivory Coast, where 25 percent live and Nigeria, where 25 percent live.

Phylips Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Phylips has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Phylips last name increased 200 percent between 1880 and 2014.

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Phylips
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