Pheonix
#6,069 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Pheonix has been given to 1,012 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #6,069 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 34 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 57% boys, 43% girls all-time.
Babies named Pheonix, 2025
1 in 221,000
Pheonix 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Pheonix over time
In 2025, Pheonix went to 32% girls and 68% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Pheonix?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 221,000
- 15 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 114,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #6,069
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 153,194 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Pheonix 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pheonix. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Pheonixs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Pheonix was born before 2011 — so the typical Pheonix is around 14 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 35.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 88.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 573
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 35.6% of all recorded uses (204).
Is Pheonix 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
- −475
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,561
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +520
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.15×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 44.1%
- Peak was 2019 (34)
- Years since peak
- 6
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.3% average annual change
Spellings of Pheonix
Pheonix is not the most common spelling — Phoenix is, with 95.8% against Pheonix's 2.2%.
Where Pheonix is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Pheonix was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,563,839 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 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. Pheonix has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Pheonix is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Pheonix was most concentrated in Tennessee — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 687,417 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Tennessee1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Pheonix has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Pheonix around the world
Where Pheonix 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 & Wales2006–2025#4,275in 2025
- Canada2002–2018#2,905in 2018
- South Australia1996–2009#708in 2009
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Pheonix by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Pheonix
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Pheonix
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.