Phinneas

#13,400 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Phinneas has been given to 148 babies in the U.S. since 2007. In 2025 it ranked #13,400 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Phinneas, 2025

1 in 663,000

Phinneas over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

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
#13,400
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Phinneas 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Phinneas. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Phinneass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Phinneas was born before 2012 — so the typical Phinneas is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
57.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
148
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Choose a decade

2010s — 57.4% of all recorded uses (85).

Is Phinneas 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
−1,419
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,084
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,505
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
29.4%
Peak was 2010 (17)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,368
2011

Spellings of Phinneas

Phinneas is not the most common spelling — Phineas is, with 60.1% against Phinneas's 3.2%.

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.

Phinneas by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,400
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,084
Best rank ever
#5,368
2011
Peak year
2010
17 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
148
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Phinneas

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

Sibling names for Phinneas

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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