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The phillips Surname

phillips Name Meaning and History

English, Dutch, North German, and Jewish (western Ashkenazic): patronymic from the personal name Philip. In North America this name has also absorbed cognate names from other European languages, for example Italian Filippi, Polish Filipowicz.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The phillips name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the phillips family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of phillips Families in the US in 1920
Number of phillips families
 1488-2973
 497-1487		 1-496
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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