Pharell
#13,396 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Pharell has been given to 193 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #13,396 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 24 recorded.
Babies named Pharell, 2025
1 in 663,000
Pharell 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Pharell?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #13,396
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Pharell 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pharell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Pharells were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Pharell was born before 2008 — so the typical Pharell is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 67.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 193
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 67.9% of all recorded uses (131).
Is Pharell 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,055
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.71×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 20.8%
- Peak was 2004 (24)
- Years since peak
- 21
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 39.6% average annual change
Spellings of Pharell
Pharell is not the most common spelling — Darell is, with 40.0% against Pharell's 1.4%.
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 Pharell is used
Across 1910–2025, Pharell was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,211,258 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 in —
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. Pharell has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Pharell around the world
Where Pharell 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 & Wales2003–2012#3,987in 2012
- France2003–2025#653in 2025
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Pharell by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Pharell
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Pharell
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.