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Pinchas

#2,528 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Phinehas

Pinchas has been given to 1,199 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #2,528 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 53 recorded.

Babies named Pinchas, 2025

1 in 62,600

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pinchas: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Phinehas

Hebrew

What Pinchas means

Pinchas is a form of Phinehas.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Pinchas → Phinehas → pꜣ-nḥsj. The family’s proposed meaning is “the + Nubian”, recorded in Egyptian with the source elements pꜣ and nḥsj.

Origin, language, and formation

Pinchas is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Phinehas.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,199 boys were recorded with the name Pinchas between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 53 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,528 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,792 in 2020 to #2,528 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,416 in 2015 to #2,528 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Pinchas?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 62,600
53 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 32,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,528
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
43,358 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pinchas 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 43,358 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pinchas. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pinchass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pinchas was born before 2009 — so the typical Pinchas is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
26.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,199
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 26.4% of all recorded uses (317).

Is Pinchas 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
+95
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+264
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+888
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.61×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (53)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,528
2025

Spellings of Pinchas

Pinchas is the most-used spelling, taking 48.1% of the 2,492 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Pinchas is used

Across 1910–2025, Pinchas was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 19,143 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 50,000).

26 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 16,667
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 50,000

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. Pinchas has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Pinchas around the world

Where Pinchas 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
    1996–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024

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.

Pinchas by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,528
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 264
Best rank ever
#2,528
2025
Peak year
2025
53 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,199
Count in 2025
53

Names similar to Pinchas

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

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Sibling names for Pinchas

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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