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Phinehas

#2,594 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly the + Nubian, through pꜣ-nḥsj

Phinehas has been given to 585 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #2,594 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 51 recorded.

Babies named Phinehas, 2025

1 in 65,000

Phinehas over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Phinehas: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly the + Nubian, through pꜣ-nḥsj

Ancient Greek, Egyptian and Hebrew

What Phinehas means

Phinehas belongs to the name family reached through Phinehas → pꜣ-nḥsj. Its meaning is “the + Nubian”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Uncertain. From Biblical Hebrew פִּינְחָס (Pīnəḥās); further derivation is uncertain. פִּינְחָס (Pīnəḥās) has been suggested to derive from Egyptian pꜣ-nḥsj (literally “the Nubian”), from pꜣ + nḥsj. Alternatively, within Judaism the name has been suggested to be a compound of the elements פה (mouth) and נחש (intuitive knowledge), and so meaning "oracle", but this has been suggested to be an example of folk etymology made after the fact.

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Origin, language, and formation

Phinehas is used in English. Its origins include Ancient Greek, Egyptian and Hebrew.

Phinehas comes through Biblical Hebrew פִּינְחָס and Egyptian pꜣ-nḥsj.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include pꜣ-nḥsj.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 585 boys were recorded with the name Phinehas between 1997 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 51 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,594 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,324 in 2020 to #2,594 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,757 in 2015 to #2,594 in 2025.

How common is Phinehas?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 65,000
51 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 33,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,594
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
45,058 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Phinehas sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 45,058 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Phinehas. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Phinehass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Phinehas was born before 2018 — so the typical Phinehas is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
43.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
585
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 43.6% of all recorded uses (255).

Is Phinehas 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
+490
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+730
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,163
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.76×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (51)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,594
2025

Spellings of Phinehas

Phinehas is not the most common spelling — Phineas is, with 61.1% against Phinehas's 12.8%.

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 Phinehas is used

Across 1910–2025, Phinehas was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,961,532 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Phinehas has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Phinehas around the world

Where Phinehas 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 & Wales
    2012–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2018–2018
    #2,536
    in 2018

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Phinehas by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,594
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 730
Best rank ever
#2,594
2025
Peak year
2025
51 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
585
Count in 2025
51

Names similar to Phinehas

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Phinehas

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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