The PHILIP surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,584	6778	0.002	17
United States (1880 census)	1,344	4233	0.003	27
Change since 1880	+3240	-2545	-0.001	-10
Other Countries
Australia	498	3232	0.003	30
United Kingdom	2,305	2614	0.005	50

Top States for PHILIP by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	816	2225	0.004	43
Texas	487	4310	0.002	23
California	397	6791	0.001	12
Pennsylvania	372	3998	0.003	30
Florida	321	5998	0.002	20
Top States for PHILIP by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	32	3118	0.005	53
New York	816	2225	0.004	43
Pennsylvania	372	3998	0.003	30
New Jersey	242	3910	0.003	29
Maryland	146	3974	0.003	28

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called PHILIP live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called PHILIP represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called PHILIP in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a PHILIP by picking someone at random in Vermont than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of PHILIP

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the PHILIP surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the PHILIP surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of PHILIP in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	856	18.67
Mixed Race	166	3.62
White (Hispanic)	75	1.64
Native American/Alaskan	21	0.46
Asian/Pacific	1,764	38.48
White (Caucasian)	1,702	37.13

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the PHILIP surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to PHILIP

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PHILIP.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.