Phî
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Phî is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Sino-Vietnamese word from 飛 (“to fly; to gallop”).
- USUnited States1 in 123K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 89K
- DKDenmark1 in 113K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- 1 in 89K (inferred from the name graph)
2,708 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Phi in US United States, NL Netherlands.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Sino-Vietnamese word from 飛 (“to fly; to gallop”).
Sources 3
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
- Mẹo giải nghĩa từ Hán Việt và chữa lỗi chính tả
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Phî counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,708 | 1 in 123K | 1.9K | Phi | 116 |
| SE Sweden | 114 | 1 in 89K | 114 | — | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | 87 | 1 in 199K | 61 | Phi | 12 |
| DK Denmark | 52 | 1 in 113K | 42 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 44 | 1 in 127K | 80 | — | 4 |
2,708 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Phî mean, and where does it come from?
- Sino-Vietnamese word from 飛 (“to fly; to gallop”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc and 1 other source.
- In which country does Phî have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Phî, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled phi.
- Where is Phî most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Phî is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 89 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Phî?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,708 people named Phî in 2020, about 1 in 123 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ph%C3%AEThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Phî”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.