Meaning not yet researched.
Pharaoh: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 73 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,025 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,025 in 2019; #2,051 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Pharaoh in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,051 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #1,025.
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Pharaoh: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 73 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,025 in 2019 · most boys in one year: 203 (2019).
In 2025, 73 US boys were named Pharaoh, making it the 2,051st most common boys’ name of the year, down 320 places from #1,731 in 2024. That is 23 fewer than the 96 boys named Pharaoh in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,025, reached in 2019. That year also had the most boys given the name: 203. For comparison, it was #1,450 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Pharaoh in 33 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1979 with 6 babies. In all, 1,997 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,020 babies named Pharaoh.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,378 US boys were named Pharaoh; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 203. In 2025 that was about 1 in 23,398 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Pharaoh ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #1,526 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Phara are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Phara (21).
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 Pharaoh in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 7 | #1,526 | #1,137 |
| Texas | 9 | #1,868 | #2,646 |
| California | 8 | #1,945 | #1,520 |
| Florida | 5 | #2,026 | #1,646 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 73 | #2,051 |
| 2024 | — | — | 96 | #1,731 |
| 2023 | — | — | 116 | #1,526 |
| 2022 | — | — | 148 | #1,293 |
| 2021 | — | — | 137 | #1,355 |
| 2020 | — | — | 160 | #1,197 |
| 2019 | — | — | 203 | #1,025 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,554 | 162 | #1,178 |
| 2017 | — | — | 145 | #1,262 |
| 2016 | — | — | 138 | #1,312 |
| 2015 | — | — | 117 | #1,450 |
| 2014 | — | — | 87 | #1,746 |
| 2013 | — | — | 55 | #2,323 |
| 2012 | — | — | 46 | #2,667 |
| 2011 | — | — | 39 | #2,984 |
| 2010 | — | — | 23 | #4,335 |
| 2009 | — | — | 41 | #2,935 |
| 2008 | — | — | 25 | #4,114 |
| 2007 | — | — | 19 | #4,937 |
| 2006 | — | — | 24 | #4,072 |
| 2005 | — | — | 17 | #4,975 |
| 2004 | — | — | 18 | #4,735 |
| 2003 | — | — | 15 | #5,206 |
| 2002 | — | — | 11 | #6,412 |
| 2001 | — | — | 11 | #6,332 |
| 2000 | — | — | 6 | #10,012 |
| 1999 | — | — | 9 | #6,952 |
| 1998 | — | — | 5 | #10,872 |
| 1997 | — | — | 8 | #7,105 |
| 1996 | — | — | 13 | #4,813 |
| 1995 | — | — | 7 | #7,584 |
| 1994 | — | — | 12 | #5,038 |
| 1979 | — | — | 6 | #5,871 |
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).