Phuc
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Phuc has been given to 284 babies in the U.S. since 1977. 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 1982, with 21 recorded.
Babies named Phuc, 2020
1 in 668,000
Phuc 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Phuc?
Phuc had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2020
- 1 in 668,000
- 5 of 3,342,313 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 345,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2020
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 463,344 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Phuc sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Phuc. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Phucs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Phuc was born before 1987 — so the typical Phuc is around 38 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 55.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 18.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 277
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 55.6% of all recorded uses (154).
Is Phuc 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1982 (21)
- Years since peak
- 43
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.5% average annual change
Spellings of Phuc
Phuc is not the most common spelling — Paul is, with 96.8% against Phuc's 0.02%.
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 Phuc is used
Across 1910–2025, Phuc was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 370,909 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 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. Phuc has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Phuc around the world
Where Phuc 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.
- France1983–2020#4,665in 2020
- South Australia1988–2013#754in 2013
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Phuc by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Phuc
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Phuc
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.