Meaning not yet researched.
Phineas: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 105 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,030 in 1880.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,030 in 1880; #1,616 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Phineas in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,616 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #1,030.
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Phineas: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 105 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,030 in 1880 · most boys in one year: 142 (2016).
In 2025, 105 US boys were named Phineas, making it the 1,616th most common boys’ name of the year, down 70 places from #1,546 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 114 boys named Phineas in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,030, reached in 1880. The most boys given the name in a single year was 142, in 2016. For comparison, it was #1,664 in 2015 and #4,069 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Phineas in 74 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 2,803 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,190 babies named Phineas.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,203 US boys were named Phineas; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 142. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,267 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Phineas ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #1,005 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Finneas (1,129 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Phinehas, Phinneas and Fineas 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Phinehas (585), Phinneas (148), Fineas (54), Phineus (17), Phinneaus (6).
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 Phineas 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 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,005 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,201 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,224 | #1,340 |
| New York | 7 | #1,527 | #1,777 |
| California | 10 | #1,661 | #1,307 |
| Texas | 5 | #2,860 | #2,323 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 105 | #1,616 |
| 2024 | — | — | 114 | #1,546 |
| 2023 | — | — | 99 | #1,707 |
| 2022 | — | — | 108 | #1,619 |
| 2021 | — | — | 131 | #1,404 |
| 2020 | — | — | 121 | #1,434 |
| 2019 | — | — | 118 | #1,471 |
| 2018 | — | — | 136 | #1,332 |
| 2017 | — | — | 129 | #1,376 |
| 2016 | — | — | 142 | #1,284 |
| 2015 | — | — | 95 | #1,664 |
| 2014 | — | — | 106 | #1,523 |
| 2013 | — | — | 98 | #1,584 |
| 2012 | — | — | 105 | #1,533 |
| 2011 | — | — | 120 | #1,393 |
| 2010 | — | — | 141 | #1,248 |
| 2009 | — | — | 130 | #1,339 |
| 2008 | — | — | 117 | #1,430 |
| 2007 | — | — | 88 | #1,718 |
| 2006 | — | — | 67 | #2,005 |
| 2005 | — | — | 43 | #2,600 |
| 2004 | — | — | 40 | #2,679 |
| 2003 | — | — | 39 | #2,609 |
| 2002 | — | — | 28 | #3,241 |
| 2001 | — | — | 28 | #3,204 |
| 2000 | — | — | 27 | #3,204 |
| 1999 | — | — | 14 | #4,961 |
| 1998 | — | — | 17 | #4,149 |
| 1997 | — | — | 11 | #5,563 |
| 1996 | — | — | 8 | #6,949 |
| 1995 | — | — | 7 | #7,586 |
| 1994 | — | — | 6 | #8,538 |
| 1992 | — | — | 8 | #6,536 |
| 1991 | — | — | 5 | #9,241 |
| 1989 | — | — | 8 | #6,075 |
| 1988 | — | — | 5 | #8,200 |
| 1985 | — | — | 8 | #5,036 |
| 1983 | — | — | 11 | #3,806 |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #7,098 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #7,011 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #7,017 |
| 1976 | — | — | 8 | #4,307 |
| 1974 | — | — | 7 | #4,512 |
| 1972 | — | — | 6 | #4,830 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #5,466 |
| 1967 | — | — | 8 | #3,179 |
| 1963 | — | — | 7 | #3,572 |
| 1962 | — | — | 6 | #3,930 |
| 1961 | — | — | 5 | #4,508 |
| 1958 | — | — | 7 | #3,495 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #4,256 |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,699 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #4,069 |
| 1949 | — | — | 5 | #4,084 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #4,140 |
| 1940 | — | — | 5 | #3,822 |
| 1938 | — | — | 5 | #3,917 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #4,094 |
| 1933 | — | — | 6 | #3,549 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #4,157 |
| 1930 | — | — | 8 | #3,227 |
| 1926 | — | — | 8 | #3,314 |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,740 |
| 1923 | — | — | 7 | #3,735 |
| 1922 | — | — | 7 | #3,787 |
| 1920 | — | — | 6 | #4,169 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,653 |
| 1918 | — | — | 9 | #3,046 |
| 1917 | — | — | 10 | #2,687 |
| 1916 | — | — | 9 | #2,883 |
| 1915 | — | — | 5 | #4,265 |
| 1897 | — | — | 5 | #1,191 |
| 1891 | — | — | 5 | #1,092 |
| 1880 | — | — | 5 | #1,030 |
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).