In 2025, 75 US boys were named Fenix, making it the 2,013th most common boys’ name of the year, up 34 places from #2,047 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 74 boys named Fenix in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,988, reached in 2021. The most boys given the name in a single year was 76, in 2023. For comparison, it was #2,732 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 17 US girls were named Fenix, making it the 6,629th most common girls’ name of the year, up 112 places from #6,741 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 17 girls named Fenix in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #5,422, reached in 2017. That year also had the most girls given the name: 24. For comparison, it was #13,468 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Fenix in 26 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2000 with 7 babies. In all, 1,428 US babies have been given the name, 21% of them girls and 79% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 626 babies named Fenix.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 695 US boys were named Fenix; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 76. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,774 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Fenix ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,264 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Phenix and Fenyx are summarised on this page.