Baby girls per year who have been named Phillippa since 1930

Release date:
26 April 2021

You asked

​​Please could I request data for the number of baby girls per year who have been named Philippa (and alternative spellings Phillipa and Phillippa) and Pippa, and the rankings of those names, from birth registration data in England since 1930.

We said

​Thank you for your enquiry.

We have been responsible for publishing baby names since 1996. Therefore, we only hold the requested analysis from 1996 onwards. Using the following publication, Baby names in England and Wales: from 1996 - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk), there have been the following counts:

19961997199819992000200120022003
PHILIPA3,795382439003262
PHILIPPA150167177195215254245299
PHILLIPA6357707019001095106311921124
PHILLIPPA80273611228429938539982191
PIPPA671874869794535685582607
20042005200620072008200920102011
PHILIPA5785
PHILIPPA323305297390373394394292
PHILLIPA16171295166013842150190922351545
PHILLIPPA17961796198326273397275957072432
PIPPA438438424404385351365204
20122013201420152016201720182019
PHILIPA5691
PHILIPPA306306336316333340350336
PHILLIPA17202313205823282008199524992643
PHILLIPPA328531603160573047635765
PIPPA165184148138127117112125

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Please note:

  1. These rankings have been produced using the exact spelling of the name given at birth registration. Similar names with different spellings have been counted separately.
  2. Names with a count of 2 or less in total within England and Wales have been withheld, as this is considered identifiable information. Section 39 of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (SRSA) renders it an offence to disclose information held by the Statistics Board for statistical purposes that would identify an individual. As we are prohibited by law from publishing statistics in which individuals can be identified, we find that Section 44 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) applies. Section 44 is an absolute exemption and no consideration of the public interest test needs to be applied. This is also consistent with the disclosure control methodology used for our birth statistics.

We also hold a special publication using data from General Registry Office (GRO), which provides historical data on the Top 100 baby names in England and Wales from 1904 to 1994, available via the following link, which may of interest: Top 100 baby names in England and Wales: historical data - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk). The GRO therefore may be better placed to assist with further information prior to 1996. They can be contacted via the following web address: https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/

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