Phelix

Peak · boys
1966 · 7 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
221
since 1924

Phelix over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Phelix has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #3,249, 1966boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
2025#7,67910
2024#7,76510
2023#6,22014
2022#8,3009
2021#8,8258
2020#8,7398
2019#5,55516
2018#7,61710
2017#4,93519
2016#8,8168
2015#10,6446
2014#8,7818
2013#7,02611
2012#7,55910
2011#9,6007
2010#12,2315
2009#9,8647
2008#12,5535
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First appearance
1924

The first year at least five boys were named Phelix! It came in at #4,347, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1926–1927, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Phelix is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more boys named Phelix in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Phelix
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 86 spots since 2024 (#7,765 → #7,679)
  • 1,060 spots since 2020 (#8,739 → #7,679)
  • 2,965 spots since 2015 (#10,644 → #7,679)
Rise & fade · boys
42 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1924
  • Peaked 1966 at #3,249 (7 births)
  • Births halved by 1967, 1 yr 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 97,419
  • Highest: 1 in 97,419 boys born in 2017 were named Phelix (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 170,808 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #3,249 in 1966, was only 1 in 254,780 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 45.2% of all boys named Phelix (100) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1920s17#3,697 (1928)#3,928
1930s0——
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1950s10#3,886 (1955)#3,937
1960s7#3,249 (1966)#3,249
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1990s11#7,971 (1996)#8,801
2000s17#9,864 (2009)#11,296
2010s100#4,935 (2017)#8,276
2020s59#6,220 (2023)#7,921

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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