Pharaoh
#2,051 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Pharaoh has been given to 1,997 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #2,051 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 203 recorded.
Babies named Pharaoh, 2025
1 in 45,400
Pharaoh over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Pharaoh?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 45,400
- 73 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 23,400
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,051
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 31,479 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Pharaoh sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 31,479 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pharaoh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Pharaohs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Pharaoh was born before 2018 — so the typical Pharaoh is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 51.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 96.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,992
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 51.0% of all recorded uses (1,015).
Is Pharaoh rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −320
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −854
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −601
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.62×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 36.0%
- Peak was 2019 (203)
- Years since peak
- 6
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.4% average annual change
Spellings of Pharaoh
Pharaoh is the most-used spelling, taking 74.6% of the 2,670 babies given a near-identical spelling.
- Pharaoh74.6%1,992
- Pharoah25.4%678
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Pharaoh is used
Across 2016–2025, Pharaoh was most concentrated in Nevada — about 1 in 3,846 boys, against 1 in 13,771 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Nevada1 in 3,846
- 2District of Columbia1 in 4,348
- 3Georgia1 in 5,882
- 4New York1 in 7,692
- 5Louisiana1 in 9,091
- 6South Carolina1 in 9,091
- 7Florida1 in 11,111
- 8California1 in 12,500
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.
Pharaoh around the world
Where Pharaoh ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2012–2023#4,992in 2023
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Pharaoh by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Pharaoh
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Pharaoh
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.