Phoenix
#533 for girls in 2025, 567 births · #329 for boys in 2025, 1,027 births
Given to boys 60.5% of the time
- 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
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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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.
See more about Phoenix
- 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)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 2020 at #236 (1,534 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 30 yrs · run 1997–2025
- 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%)
- 43.2% of all boys named Phoenix (10,623) were born in this decade
- 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.
Phoenix in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 2,005 of them was named Phoenix, which outranked 98.0% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 1,372 of them was named Phoenix, which outranked 98.1% 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).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.