Phineas
#1,609 for boys in 2025, 105 births
- Peak · boys
- 1880 · 5 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,803since 1880
Phineas over time
Rank among boys' names. Phineas has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,609 | 105 |
| 2024 | #1,540 | 114 |
| 2023 | #1,701 | 99 |
| 2022 | #1,611 | 108 |
| 2021 | #1,397 | 131 |
| 2020 | #1,423 | 121 |
| 2019 | #1,468 | 118 |
| 2018 | #1,328 | 136 |
| 2017 | #1,373 | 129 |
| 2016 | #1,279 | 142 |
| 2015 | #1,657 | 95 |
| 2014 | #1,514 | 106 |
| 2013 | #1,578 | 98 |
| 2012 | #1,523 | 105 |
| 2011 | #1,385 | 120 |
| 2010 | #1,245 | 141 |
| 2009 | #1,331 | 130 |
| 2008 | #1,428 | 117 |
| 2007 | #1,713 | 88 |
| 2006 | #1,994 | 67 |
| 2005 | #2,567 | 43 |
| 2004 | #2,643 | 40 |
| 2003 | #2,579 | 39 |
| 2002 | #3,188 | 28 |
| 2001 | #3,143 | 28 |
| 2000 | #3,150 | 27 |
| 1999 | #4,762 | 14 |
| 1998 | #4,019 | 17 |
| 1997 | #5,288 | 11 |
| 1996 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #6,992 | 7 |
| 1994 | #7,770 | 6 |
| 1993 | — | |
| 1992 | #6,128 | 8 |
| 1991 | #8,236 | 5 |
| 1990 | — | |
| 1989 | #5,615 | 8 |
| 1988 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | — | |
| 1986 | — | |
| 1985 | #4,698 | 8 |
| 1984 | — | |
| 1983 | #3,630 | 11 |
| 1982 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | — | |
| 1978 | — | |
| 1977 | — | |
| 1976 | #4,012 | 8 |
| 1975 | — | |
| 1974 | #4,190 | 7 |
| 1973 | — | |
| 1972 | #4,441 | 6 |
| 1971 | #4,907 | 5 |
| 1970 | — | |
| 1969 | — | |
| 1968 | — | |
| 1967 | #2,985 | 8 |
| 1966 | — | |
| 1965 | — | |
| 1964 | — | |
| 1963 | #3,318 | 7 |
| 1962 | #3,640 | 6 |
| 1961 | #4,065 | 5 |
| 1960 | — | |
| 1959 | — | |
| 1958 | #3,275 | 7 |
| 1957 | — | |
| 1956 | — | |
| 1955 | #3,886 | 5 |
| 1954 | — | |
| 1953 | #3,425 | 6 |
| 1952 | — | |
| 1951 | — | |
| 1950 | #3,681 | 5 |
| 1949 | #3,690 | 5 |
| 1948 | — | |
| 1947 | #3,733 | 5 |
| 1946 | — | |
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| 1941 | — | |
| 1940 | #3,459 | 5 |
| 1939 | — | |
| 1938 | #3,534 | 5 |
| 1937 | — | |
| 1936 | — | |
| 1935 | — | |
| 1934 | #3,679 | 5 |
| 1933 | #3,268 | 6 |
| 1932 | #3,776 | 5 |
| 1931 | — | |
| 1930 | #3,022 | 8 |
| 1929 | — | |
| 1928 | — | |
| 1927 | — | |
| 1926 | #3,139 | 8 |
| 1925 | #4,197 | 5 |
| 1924 | — | |
| 1923 | #3,467 | 7 |
| 1922 | #3,532 | 7 |
| 1921 | — | |
| 1920 | #3,815 | 6 |
| 1919 | #4,168 | 5 |
| 1918 | #2,882 | 9 |
| 1917 | #2,562 | 10 |
| 1916 | #2,730 | 9 |
| 1915 | #3,825 | 5 |
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| 1897 | #1,057 | 5 |
| 1896 | — | |
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| 1892 | — | |
| 1891 | #963 | 5 |
| 1890 | — | |
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| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | #909 | 5 |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Phineas was already there! It came in at #909, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1880–1915, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Phineas is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Missouri#750 · 1 in 5,101
- Virginia#793 · 1 in 5,822
- Michigan#970 · 1 in 7,737
- New Jersey#980 · 1 in 8,171
- Ohio#1,074 · 1 in 9,727
Best ever in a state: #227 in Maine, 2009.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | #750 | 6 | 1 in 5,101 |
| Virginia | #793 | 7 | 1 in 5,822 |
| Michigan | #970 | 6 | 1 in 7,737 |
| New Jersey | #980 | 5 | 1 in 8,171 |
| Ohio | #1,074 | 6 | 1 in 9,727 |
| Illinois | #1,180 | 6 | 1 in 10,322 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,211 | 5 | 1 in 11,642 |
| Georgia | #1,239 | 5 | 1 in 10,738 |
| New York | #1,430 | 7 | 1 in 13,936 |
| Texas | #1,896 | 7 | 1 in 25,167 |
| California | #2,263 | 6 | 1 in 35,951 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Phineas
- 69 spots since 2024 (#1,540 → #1,609)
- 186 spots since 2020 (#1,423 → #1,609)
- 48 spots since 2015 (#1,657 → #1,609)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1880 at #909 (5 births)
- Births halved by 1881, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 1880–1891
- Highest: 1 in 13,354 boys born in 2018 were named Phineas (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 16,267 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #909 in 1880, was only 1 in 22,098 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 42.5% of all boys named Phineas (1,190) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | #909 (1880) | #909 |
| 1890s | 10 | #963 (1891) | #1,010 |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 38 | #2,562 (1917) | #3,233 |
| 1920s | 33 | #3,139 (1926) | #3,630 |
| 1930s | 29 | #3,022 (1930) | #3,456 |
| 1940s | 15 | #3,459 (1940) | #3,627 |
| 1950s | 23 | #3,275 (1958) | #3,567 |
| 1960s | 26 | #2,985 (1967) | #3,502 |
| 1970s | 26 | #4,012 (1976) | #4,388 |
| 1980s | 47 | #3,630 (1983) | #5,730 |
| 1990s | 76 | #4,019 (1998) | #6,211 |
| 2000s | 607 | #1,331 (2009) | #2,374 |
| 2010s | 1,190 | #1,245 (2010) | #1,435 |
| 2020s | 678 | #1,397 (2021) | #1,547 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Phineas in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
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1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 14,348 of them was named Phineas, which outranked 90.4% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,365Niam130
- #1,365Pierson130
- #1,365Rome130
- #1,373Phineas129
- #1,373Isa129
- #1,373Josh129
- #1,373Mikah129
- #1,378Benaiah128
- #1,378Cassian128
- #1,378Kion128
Tied with 4 names at #1,373; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.