Phenix is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Fenix, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Phenix: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 29 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,825 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 67% of babies named Phenix in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,825 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Phenix: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 29 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,825 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 29 (2025).
In 2025, 29 US boys were named Phenix, making it the 3,825th most common boys’ name of the year, up 580 places from #4,405 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 24 boys named Phenix in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,825, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 29. For comparison, it was #4,260 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 14 US girls were named Phenix, making it the 7,802nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,688 places from #5,114 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 26 girls named Phenix in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #4,843, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 28. For comparison, it was #8,831 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Phenix in 30 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1994 with 5 babies. In all, 870 US babies have been given the name, 41% of them girls and 59% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 354 babies named Phenix.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 240 US boys were named Phenix; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 29. In 2025 that was about 1 in 58,899 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Fenix (1,428 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Phenix 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 | 14 | #7,802 | 29 | #3,825 |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,114 | 24 | #4,405 |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,843 | 28 | #3,970 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,938 | 27 | #4,065 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,617 | 24 | #4,334 |
| 2020 | 20 | #6,026 | 22 | #4,511 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,575 | 18 | #5,297 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,722 | 19 | #5,058 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,184 | 26 | #4,076 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,298 | 23 | #4,435 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,831 | 24 | #4,260 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,391 | 20 | #4,820 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,421 | 26 | #3,936 |
| 2012 | 13 | #9,004 | 14 | #6,225 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,482 | 18 | #5,140 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,664 | 18 | #5,191 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,492 | 15 | #6,011 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,366 | 26 | #4,004 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,433 | 9 | #8,733 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,313 | 13 | #6,370 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,959 | 16 | #5,216 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,837 | 13 | #6,055 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,727 | 10 | #7,105 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,872 | 13 | #5,647 |
| 2001 | — | — | 11 | #6,334 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,552 | 5 | #11,699 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,217 | 6 | #9,575 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,937 | — | — |
| 1995 | — | — | 8 | #6,826 |
| 1994 | — | — | 5 | #9,875 |
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).