Philo
2025 SSA
About Philo
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We love the o-ending and sweet meaning of this dynamic and distinctive Greek name, often used in literature, but never particularly popular.
The ancient Philo (aka Philo of Alexandria and Philo the Jew) was a Biblical philosopher who attempted to merge Greek and Jewish thought.
A character named Philo was a minor figure in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, it was the name of the S. S. Van Dine aristocratic dandy detective Philo Vance, and Clint Eastwood's character in both Any Which Way You Can and Any Which Way But Loose was Philo Beddoe. Most well known Philo in recent real life was inventor Philo Farnsworth.
Pronounced FY-loh.
As of October 2026, Philo ranked #11663 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #974 in 1881.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
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| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Philo on lists
Famous Philos
- Philo of Alexandria
Jewish philosopher of Hellenistic Egypt
- Philo of Byblos
Greek writer
- Philo of Larissa
Greek philosopher
- Philo of Byzantium
Greek engineer
- Philo the Dialectician
Greek philosopher
- Philo Taylor Farnsworth
American inventor of television
- Philo McCullough
American actor
- Philo Hall
U.S. Congressman from South Dakota
- Philo Norton McGiffin
U.S. naval officer
- Philo Alphonso Wallace
Barbadian cricketer
Philo in pop culture
- Philo Beddoe
character in the films "Every Which Way but Loose" and "Any Which Way You Can"
- Philo Vance
main character in detective novels by S.S. van Dine
- Philo Thibodeau
character from "Star of Babylon," by Barbara Wood
- Philo
character on TV's Fraggle Rock
- Philo
character from the "Weird Al" Yankovic film UHF
- Philo
character in David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion