Philadelphia
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About Philadelphia
Not nearly as popular as neighbors Trenton and Camden, but occasionally used for girls. Shirley Temple played a Philadelphia in the old western movie "Fort Apache."
Philadelphia for girls
Place-name mentioned in the New Testament and not yet on the name map. Philadelphia Thursday was the character played by Shirley Temple in John Ford's 1948 "Fort Apache."
Pronounced fil-uh-DEL-fee-uh.
As of October 2026, Philadelphia ranked #15111 for girls in US births in 1994 SSA, peaked at #7943 for girls in 1984.
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Famous Philadelphias
- Philadelphia Carey ScropeGirl
Baroness Scrope of Bolton; granddaughter of royal mistress Mary Boleyn
- Philadelphia WhartonGirl
subject of a painting by Sir Anthony Van Dyck, named after Philadelphia Scrope
- Philadelphia AustenGirl
aunt of Jane Austen and mother of Eliza de Feuillide
- Zepherina Philadelphia SmithGirl
English nurse and educator of midwives
Philadelphia in pop culture
- PhiladelphiaBoth
location of a New Testament church
- PhiladelphiaBoth
Pennsylvania, USA
- PhiladelphiaGirl
Shirley Temple's character in the film Fort Apache
- Philadelphia "PhiladelphyGirl
" the wife of Lucius "Loosh" in William Faulkner's novel The Unvanquished and short story "My Grandmother Millard"