Phinehas is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Phineas, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Phinehas: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 51 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,594 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Phinehas in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,594 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Phinehas: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 51 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,594 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 51 (2025).
In 2025, 51 US boys were named Phinehas, making it the 2,594th most common boys’ name of the year, up 491 places from #3,085 in 2024. That is 11 more than the 40 boys named Phinehas in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,594, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 51. For comparison, it was #3,758 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Phinehas in 25 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1997 with 5 babies. In all, 585 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 255 babies named Phinehas.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 353 US boys were named Phinehas; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 51. In 2025 that was about 1 in 33,492 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Phinehas ranked highest in Illinois in 2025, at #1,439 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Phineas (2,803 babies since 1880) and Finneas (1,129 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).
No nicknames listed for Phinehas 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 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 5 | #1,439 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 51 | #2,594 |
| 2024 | — | — | 40 | #3,085 |
| 2023 | — | — | 32 | #3,611 |
| 2022 | — | — | 39 | #3,141 |
| 2021 | — | — | 38 | #3,165 |
| 2020 | — | — | 34 | #3,326 |
| 2019 | — | — | 33 | #3,477 |
| 2018 | — | — | 27 | #3,967 |
| 2017 | — | — | 31 | #3,567 |
| 2016 | — | — | 28 | #3,866 |
| 2015 | — | — | 29 | #3,758 |
| 2014 | — | — | 19 | #5,011 |
| 2013 | — | — | 24 | #4,149 |
| 2012 | — | — | 15 | #5,914 |
| 2011 | — | — | 26 | #3,963 |
| 2010 | — | — | 23 | #4,336 |
| 2009 | — | — | 21 | #4,707 |
| 2008 | — | — | 11 | #7,577 |
| 2007 | — | — | 10 | #8,018 |
| 2006 | — | — | 21 | #4,469 |
| 2005 | — | — | 9 | #8,137 |
| 2003 | — | — | 7 | #9,361 |
| 2001 | — | — | 5 | #11,861 |
| 1998 | — | — | 7 | #8,225 |
| 1997 | — | — | 5 | #10,397 |
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).