Meaning not yet researched.
Phoenix: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,027 in 2025. Its best rank was #236 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #236 in 2020; #329 in 2025. About 64% of babies named Phoenix in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#329 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #236.
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Phoenix: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,027 boys in 2025. Peak: #236 in 2020 · most boys in one year: 1,534 (2020).
In 2025, 1,027 US boys were named Phoenix, making it the 329th most common boys’ name of the year, down 54 places from #275 in 2024. That is 208 fewer than the 1,235 boys named Phoenix in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #236, reached in 2020. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,534. For comparison, it was #307 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 567 US girls were named Phoenix, making it the 534th most common girls’ name of the year, down 115 places from #419 in 2024. That is 179 fewer than the 746 girls named Phoenix in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #285, reached in 2020. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,116. For comparison, it was #453 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Phoenix in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 5 babies. In all, 40,635 US babies have been given the name, 40% of them girls and 60% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 17,500 babies named Phoenix.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 13,307 US boys were named Phoenix; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 1,534. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,663 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Phoenix ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #178 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Phoenyx (1,098 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
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 Phoenix 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 10 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 18 | #178 | — |
| Oklahoma | 27 | #185 | #234 |
| Delaware | 6 | #196 | — |
| West Virginia | 9 | #223 | #239 |
| Rhode Island | 5 | #225 | — |
| Arkansas | 16 | #231 | #210 |
| Ohio | 51 | #249 | #315 |
| Missouri | 29 | #251 | #222 |
| Kentucky | 22 | #252 | #169 |
| South Carolina | 23 | #253 | #363 |
| North Dakota | 5 | #256 | — |
| New Mexico | 8 | #261 | #388 |
| Louisiana | 20 | #263 | #301 |
| Idaho | 10 | #271 | #307 |
| Indiana | 29 | #281 | #201 |
| Kansas | 13 | #292 | #234 |
| Arizona | 27 | #293 | #368 |
| Tennessee | 30 | #296 | #227 |
| Iowa | 13 | #302 | #258 |
| Pennsylvania | 38 | #302 | #357 |
| Utah | 16 | #312 | #223 |
| Colorado | 21 | #316 | #357 |
| Oregon | 13 | #321 | #225 |
| Georgia | 37 | #334 | #341 |
| Illinois | 32 | #342 | #321 |
| Michigan | 26 | #343 | #245 |
| Texas | 111 | #344 | #338 |
| Washington | 22 | #348 | #409 |
| Alabama | 16 | #353 | #360 |
| Nevada | 9 | #353 | #353 |
| Nebraska | 7 | #371 | #488 |
| Virginia | 22 | #378 | #272 |
| Minnesota | 15 | #386 | #618 |
| California | 86 | #386 | #309 |
| Florida | 50 | #389 | #302 |
| North Carolina | 29 | #395 | #284 |
| New York | 44 | #397 | #333 |
| Massachusetts | 13 | #404 | #338 |
| Wisconsin | 12 | #433 | #417 |
| Maryland | 10 | #502 | #622 |
| New Jersey | 15 | #516 | #473 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 567 | #534 | 1,027 | #329 |
| 2024 | 746 | #419 | 1,235 | #275 |
| 2023 | 871 | #349 | 1,259 | #269 |
| 2022 | 1,013 | #317 | 1,342 | #260 |
| 2021 | 1,038 | #311 | 1,446 | #247 |
| 2020 | 1,116 | #285 | 1,534 | #236 |
| 2019 | 1,027 | #313 | 1,422 | #256 |
| 2018 | 908 | #350 | 1,456 | #252 |
| 2017 | 861 | #362 | 1,349 | #267 |
| 2016 | 730 | #440 | 1,237 | #293 |
| 2015 | 700 | #453 | 1,163 | #307 |
| 2014 | 637 | #491 | 914 | #354 |
| 2013 | 620 | #486 | 790 | #380 |
| 2012 | 514 | #572 | 795 | #380 |
| 2011 | 444 | #645 | 731 | #388 |
| 2010 | 436 | #666 | 766 | #376 |
| 2009 | 403 | #719 | 826 | #367 |
| 2008 | 425 | #706 | 744 | #397 |
| 2007 | 410 | #714 | 695 | #419 |
| 2006 | 336 | #812 | 675 | #422 |
| 2005 | 287 | #882 | 527 | #477 |
| 2004 | 280 | #880 | 418 | #552 |
| 2003 | 237 | #981 | 398 | #563 |
| 2002 | 150 | #1,306 | 321 | #617 |
| 2001 | 155 | #1,275 | 302 | #629 |
| 2000 | 137 | #1,367 | 180 | #878 |
| 1999 | 113 | #1,523 | 164 | #914 |
| 1998 | 110 | #1,530 | 159 | #907 |
| 1997 | 107 | #1,523 | 149 | #916 |
| 1996 | 98 | #1,596 | 116 | #1,055 |
| 1995 | 97 | #1,573 | 134 | #963 |
| 1994 | 80 | #1,808 | 122 | #1,007 |
| 1993 | 50 | #2,512 | 44 | #1,889 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,197 | 33 | #2,289 |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,423 | 26 | #2,667 |
| 1990 | 41 | #2,838 | 25 | #2,678 |
| 1989 | 38 | #2,911 | 17 | #3,413 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,440 | 10 | #4,697 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,817 | — | — |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,562 | — | — |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,810 | — | — |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,003 | 5 | #7,046 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,823 | — | — |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,446 | — | — |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,675 | — | — |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,263 | — | — |
| 1979 | 28 | #3,047 | 5 | #6,795 |
| 1978 | 27 | #2,995 | — | — |
| 1977 | 18 | #4,018 | — | — |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,917 | — | — |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,308 | 5 | #6,079 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,938 | — | — |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,591 |
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).