Meaning not yet researched.
Phaedra: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,193 in 1971.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,193 in 1971; #7,409 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Phaedra in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,409 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1971, at #1,193.
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Phaedra: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,193 in 1971 · most girls in one year: 96 (1971).
In 2025, 15 US girls were named Phaedra, making it the 7,409th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,303 places from #6,106 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 20 girls named Phaedra in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,193, reached in 1971. That year also had the most girls given the name: 96. For comparison, it was #4,209 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Phaedra in 63 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1963 with 70 babies. In all, 1,902 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 589 babies named Phaedra.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 219 US girls were named Phaedra; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 31. In 2025 that was about 1 in 107,151 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Fedra, Phadra and Faedra are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Fedra (76), Phadra (15), Faedra (12), Phaidra (8).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Phaedra in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,409 | — | — |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,106 | — | — |
| 2023 | 26 | #5,092 | — | — |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,591 | — | — |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,699 | — | — |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,616 | — | — |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,640 | — | — |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,673 | — | — |
| 2017 | 27 | #5,022 | — | — |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,607 | — | — |
| 2015 | 35 | #4,209 | — | — |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,905 | — | — |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,315 | — | — |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,100 | — | — |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,687 | — | — |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,944 | — | — |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,343 | — | — |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,908 | — | — |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,913 | — | — |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,343 | — | — |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,805 | — | — |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,679 | — | — |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,554 | — | — |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,356 | — | — |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,135 | — | — |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,066 | — | — |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,130 | — | — |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,760 | — | — |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,095 | — | — |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,467 | — | — |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,620 | — | — |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,473 | — | — |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,523 | — | — |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,397 | — | — |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,493 | — | — |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,753 | — | — |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,329 | — | — |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,244 | — | — |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,610 | — | — |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,048 | — | — |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,811 | — | — |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,949 | — | — |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,630 | — | — |
| 1982 | 30 | #3,000 | — | — |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,218 | — | — |
| 1980 | 33 | #2,783 | — | — |
| 1979 | 36 | #2,565 | — | — |
| 1978 | 34 | #2,550 | — | — |
| 1977 | 54 | #1,869 | — | — |
| 1976 | 48 | #1,904 | — | — |
| 1975 | 52 | #1,797 | — | — |
| 1974 | 68 | #1,467 | — | — |
| 1973 | 54 | #1,681 | — | — |
| 1972 | 78 | #1,311 | — | — |
| 1971 | 96 | #1,193 | — | — |
| 1970 | 69 | #1,469 | — | — |
| 1969 | 54 | #1,644 | — | — |
| 1968 | 57 | #1,515 | — | — |
| 1967 | 21 | #2,762 | — | — |
| 1966 | 22 | #2,641 | — | — |
| 1965 | 32 | #2,102 | — | — |
| 1964 | 29 | #2,292 | — | — |
| 1963 | 70 | #1,327 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).