Pharoah
- #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
- Peak · boys
- 1970 · 10 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 678since 1936
Pharoah over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Pharoah has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
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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 | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,910 | 8 |
| 2024 | #5,443 | 17 |
| 2023 | #5,927 | 15 |
| 2022 | #4,701 | 21 |
| 2021 | #4,011 | 26 |
| 2020 | #3,136 | 36 |
| 2019 | #3,426 | 33 |
| 2018 | #3,993 | 26 |
| 2017 | #3,123 | 37 |
| 2016 | #4,624 | 21 |
| 2015 | #4,407 | 22 |
| 2014 | #5,066 | 18 |
| 2013 | #6,241 | 13 |
| 2012 | #5,256 | 17 |
| 2011 | #5,945 | 14 |
| 2010 | #5,251 | 17 |
| 2009 | #5,554 | 16 |
| 2008 | #6,393 | 13 |
| 2007 | #4,127 | 24 |
| 2006 | #4,865 | 18 |
| 2005 | #4,824 | 17 |
| 2004 | #5,492 | 14 |
| 2003 | #4,815 | 16 |
| 2002 | #6,522 | 10 |
| 2001 | #4,476 | 17 |
| 2000 | #4,066 | 19 |
| 1999 | #4,341 | 16 |
| 1998 | #5,466 | 11 |
| 1997 | #6,618 | 8 |
| 1996 | #7,136 | 7 |
| 1995 | #5,501 | 10 |
| 1994 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | #6,228 | 8 |
| 1992 | #6,670 | 7 |
| 1991 | #7,271 | 6 |
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| 1984 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #5,484 | 6 |
| 1982 | #5,003 | 7 |
| 1981 | #6,262 | 5 |
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| 1978 | #5,059 | 6 |
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| 1976 | #4,012 | 8 |
| 1975 | #3,659 | 9 |
| 1974 | #5,227 | 5 |
| 1973 | #4,505 | 6 |
| 1972 | #3,152 | 10 |
| 1971 | #3,146 | 10 |
| 1970 | #3,071 | 10 |
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| 1936 | #3,549 | 5 |
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First appearance
1936
The first year at least five boys were named Pharoah! It came in at #3,549, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1936–1969, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Pharoah is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Pharoah in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Pharoah
Momentum · boys
Falling
- 3,467 spots since 2024 (#5,443 → #8,910)
- 5,774 spots since 2020 (#3,136 → #8,910)
- 4,503 spots since 2015 (#4,407 → #8,910)
Rise & fade · boys
34 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1936
- Peaked 1970 at #3,071 (10 births)
- Births halved by 1974, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 47,947
- Highest: 1 in 47,947 boys born in 2020 were named Pharoah (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 213,509 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,071 in 1970, was only 1 in 185,823 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 32.2% of all boys named Pharoah (218) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 5 | #3,549 (1936) | #3,549 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 64 | #3,071 (1970) | #3,979 |
| 1980s | 23 | #5,003 (1982) | #5,766 |
| 1990s | 81 | #4,341 (1999) | #6,178 |
| 2000s | 164 | #4,066 (2000) | #5,113 |
| 2010s | 218 | #3,123 (2017) | #4,733 |
| 2020s | 123 | #3,136 (2020) | #5,355 |
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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