Given name & surname
Phi
Phi is a masculine given name from Chinese. It is used in Vietnamese.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1976. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Phi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 519
- 474 boys · 45 girls
- Most popular year
- 1992
- 26 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 10 in 2015. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 26 in 1992. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,708 as a first name in 2020; 553 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Phi’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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