Boy
Phil
Phil is a boy's name meaning "lover of horses". It was at its most popular in the 1940s and is rarely chosen now. As things stand now, it is a distinctive, less common pick. Its single strongest year on record was 1959.
EtymologyShort for Philip
EtymologyMeaning "lover of horses"
Births by decade
1900s
218
1910s
943
1920s
1,537
1930s
2,571
1940s
4,590
1950s
3,796
1960s
4,057
1970s
887
1980s
456
1990s
315
2000s
198
2010s
110
Peaked in the 1940s · 19,678 total U.S. births since 1900