Pharaoh
Last seen for girls in 2018 at #15,682 · #2,035 for boys in 2025, 73 births
Given to boys 99.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2019 · 203 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,992since 1979
Pharaoh over time
Rank among boys' names. Pharaoh has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
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 | — | #2,035 | 73 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,724 | 96 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,518 | 116 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,289 | 148 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,349 | 137 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,196 | 160 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,023 | 203 | |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #1,176 | 162 |
| 2017 | — | #1,256 | 145 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,310 | 138 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,444 | 117 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,730 | 87 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,299 | 55 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,632 | 46 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,950 | 39 | |
| 2010 | — | #4,241 | 23 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,894 | 41 | |
| 2008 | — | #4,044 | 25 | |
| 2007 | — | #4,808 | 19 | |
| 2006 | — | #4,001 | 24 | |
| 2005 | — | #4,824 | 17 | |
| 2004 | — | #4,602 | 18 | |
| 2003 | — | #5,035 | 15 | |
| 2002 | — | #6,088 | 11 | |
| 2001 | — | #6,013 | 11 | |
| 2000 | — | #9,112 | 6 | |
| 1999 | — | #6,530 | 9 | |
| 1998 | — | #9,631 | 5 | |
| 1997 | — | #6,618 | 8 | |
| 1996 | — | #4,613 | 13 | |
| 1995 | — | #6,992 | 7 | |
| 1994 | — | #4,803 | 12 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Pharaoh! It came in at #5,355, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1980–1993, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Pharaoh is popular in 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- District of Columbia#153 · 1 in 493
- Nevada#410 · 1 in 1,880
- Maryland#699 · 1 in 4,398
- Louisiana#701 · 1 in 3,808
- Georgia#858 · 1 in 5,799
Best ever in a state: #153 in District of Columbia, 2018.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| District of Columbia | #153 | 8 | 1 in 493 |
| Nevada | #410 | 7 | 1 in 1,880 |
| Maryland | #699 | 6 | 1 in 4,398 |
| Louisiana | #701 | 6 | 1 in 3,808 |
| Georgia | #858 | 9 | 1 in 5,799 |
| New York | #865 | 14 | 1 in 6,839 |
| Ohio | #910 | 8 | 1 in 7,164 |
| Florida | #935 | 13 | 1 in 7,372 |
| Michigan | #969 | 6 | 1 in 7,649 |
| Pennsylvania | #975 | 7 | 1 in 8,181 |
| California | #1,004 | 21 | 1 in 9,834 |
| Illinois | #1,324 | 5 | 1 in 11,934 |
| Texas | #1,660 | 9 | 1 in 19,431 |
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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 Pharaoh
- 311 spots since 2024 (#1,724 → #2,035)
- 839 spots since 2020 (#1,196 → #2,035)
- 591 spots since 2015 (#1,444 → #2,035)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 2019 at #1,023 (203 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,839 boys born in 2019 were named Pharaoh (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 23,398 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 51.0% of all boys named Pharaoh (1,015) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1970s | 6 | #5,355 (1979) | #5,355 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 54 | #4,613 (1996) | #6,531 |
| 2000s | 187 | #2,894 (2009) | #5,142 |
| 2010s | 1,015 | #1,023 (2019) | #2,006 |
| 2020s | 730 | #1,196 (2020) | #1,519 |
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.
Pharaoh in 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 340,215 of them was named Pharaoh, which outranked 13.6% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,470 names at #15,682; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 11,211 of them was named Pharaoh, which outranked 91.7% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,168Nikko164
- #1,168Yaseen164
- #1,175Brent163
- #1,176Pharaoh162
- #1,176Finnian162
- #1,176Kaeden162
- #1,176Quintin162
- #1,181Craig161
- #1,181Derick161
- #1,181German161
Tied with 4 names at #1,176; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.