Phoenix
#533 for girls in 2025, 567 births · #329 for boys in 2025, 1,027 births
Given to boys 60.5% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2020 · 1,534 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 24,571since 1968
Phoenix over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #533 | 567 | #329 | 1,027 |
| 2024 | #419 | 746 | #275 | 1,235 |
| 2023 | #349 | 871 | #269 | 1,259 |
| 2022 | #316 | 1,013 | #260 | 1,342 |
| 2021 | #310 | 1,038 | #247 | 1,446 |
| 2020 | #285 | 1,116 | #236 | 1,534 |
| 2019 | #313 | 1,027 | #256 | 1,422 |
| 2018 | #350 | 908 | #252 | 1,456 |
| 2017 | #362 | 861 | #267 | 1,349 |
| 2016 | #440 | 730 | #292 | 1,237 |
| 2015 | #453 | 700 | #307 | 1,163 |
| 2014 | #491 | 637 | #353 | 914 |
| 2013 | #486 | 620 | #380 | 790 |
| 2012 | #571 | 514 | #380 | 795 |
| 2011 | #644 | 444 | #388 | 731 |
| 2010 | #665 | 436 | #375 | 766 |
| 2009 | #718 | 403 | #367 | 826 |
| 2008 | #705 | 425 | #397 | 744 |
| 2007 | #713 | 410 | #418 | 695 |
| 2006 | #812 | 336 | #422 | 675 |
| 2005 | #882 | 287 | #476 | 527 |
| 2004 | #878 | 280 | #551 | 418 |
| 2003 | #978 | 237 | #563 | 398 |
| 2002 | #1,303 | 150 | #616 | 321 |
| 2001 | #1,266 | 155 | #627 | 302 |
| 2000 | #1,363 | 137 | #875 | 180 |
| 1999 | #1,515 | 113 | #913 | 164 |
| 1998 | #1,526 | 110 | #906 | 159 |
| 1997 | #1,514 | 107 | #914 | 149 |
| 1996 | #1,583 | 98 | #1,049 | 116 |
| 1995 | #1,562 | 97 | #959 | 134 |
| 1994 | #1,798 | 80 | #1,005 | 122 |
| 1993 | #2,489 | 50 | #1,875 | 44 |
| 1992 | #3,144 | 36 | #2,253 | 33 |
| 1991 | #3,369 | 32 | #2,606 | 26 |
| 1990 | #2,799 | 41 | #2,628 | 25 |
| 1989 | #2,879 | 38 | #3,325 | 17 |
| 1988 | #4,308 | 20 | #4,450 | 10 |
| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 | — | |
| 1986 | #7,134 | 9 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,457 | 10 | — | |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #4,686 | 15 | — | |
| 1982 | #5,209 | 13 | — | |
| 1981 | #6,323 | 10 | — | |
| 1980 | #4,148 | 18 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,997 | 28 | #6,056 | 5 |
| 1978 | #2,942 | 27 | — | |
| 1977 | #3,911 | 18 | — | |
| 1976 | #3,812 | 17 | — | |
| 1975 | #5,984 | 9 | #5,464 | 5 |
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| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | — | |
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| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1968
The first year at least five boys were named Phoenix! It came in at #4,136, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1968–1987, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Falling
- 54 spots since 2024 (#275 → #329)
- 93 spots since 2020 (#236 → #329)
- 22 spots since 2015 (#307 → #329)
- Biggest jump: 248 spots in 2001 (#875 → #627)
- Biggest drop: 90 spots in 1996 (#959 → #1,049)
Rise & fade · boys
52 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 2020 at #236 (1,534 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 30 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 30 yrs · run 1997–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 1,125
- Highest: 1 in 1,125 boys born in 2020 were named Phoenix (0.09%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,663 boys born in 2025 (0.06%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 43.2% of all boys named Phoenix (10,623) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1994
- Mostly girls until 1993, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #4,136 (1968) | #4,136 |
| 1970s | 10 | #5,464 (1975) | #5,760 |
| 1980s | 32 | #3,325 (1989) | #4,697 |
| 1990s | 972 | #906 (1998) | #1,511 |
| 2000s | 5,086 | #367 (2009) | #531 |
| 2010s | 10,623 | #252 (2018) | #325 |
| 2020s | 7,843 | #236 (2020) | #269 |
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.
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