In 2025, 15 US boys were named Pheonix, making it the 6,072nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 474 places from #5,598 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 17 boys named Pheonix in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,360, reached in 2010. The most boys given the name in a single year was 34, in 2019. For comparison, it was #6,594 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Pheonix, making it the 12,872nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 6,005 places from #6,867 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 17 girls named Pheonix in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #4,558, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 31. For comparison, it was #8,832 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Pheonix in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1994 with 7 babies. In all, 1,012 US babies have been given the name, 43% of them girls and 57% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 354 babies named Pheonix.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 207 US boys were named Pheonix; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 34. In 2025 that was about 1 in 113,872 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.