Phronia
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Phronia has been given to 32 babies in the U.S. since 1917. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1923, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Phronia, 1938
1 in 443,000
Phronia 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Phronia?
Phronia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1938, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1938
- 1 in 443,000
- 5 of 2,212,569 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 221,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1938
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 306,728 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Phronia sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1938 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 306,728 children born in 1938 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Phronia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Phronias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Phronia was born before 1923 — so the typical Phronia is around 102 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 53.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 53.1% of all recorded uses (17).
Is Phronia 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1923 (6)
- Years since peak
- 102
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Steady
- 10.0% average annual change
Spellings of Phronia
Phronia is not the most common spelling — Sophronia is, with 72.7% against Phronia's 1.5%.
Phronia by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Phronia
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Phronia
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.