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.
Where Phoenix is popular in 1999
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Massachusetts#490 · 1 in 6,046
- Colorado#492 · 1 in 3,898
- Maryland#630 · 1 in 5,679
- Arizona#680 · 1 in 7,237
- Michigan#759 · 1 in 8,408
Best ever in a state: #100 in West Virginia, 2018.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | #490 | 6 | 1 in 6,046 |
| Colorado | #492 | 7 | 1 in 3,898 |
| Maryland | #630 | 5 | 1 in 5,679 |
| Arizona | #680 | 5 | 1 in 7,237 |
| Michigan | #759 | 7 | 1 in 8,408 |
| Illinois | #793 | 9 | 1 in 8,867 |
| New York | #833 | 12 | 1 in 9,478 |
| Florida | #868 | 9 | 1 in 9,649 |
| Pennsylvania | #880 | 5 | 1 in 13,210 |
| Ohio | #914 | 5 | 1 in 13,875 |
| Texas | #960 | 13 | 1 in 12,665 |
| California | #997 | 15 | 1 in 16,120 |
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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 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 1999
Top girls' names in 1999
Top boys' names in 1999
More about 1999
girls
1,773,823 girls got a published name in 1999; 1 in 15,698 of them was named Phoenix, which outranked 91.1% of the 16,947 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,502Samaria114
- #1,502Shaniah114
- #1,502Sherry114
- #1,515Phoenix113
- #1,515Anabelle113
- #1,515Celena113
- #1,515Dalila113
- #1,525Adela112
- #1,525Bayley112
- #1,525Harper112
Tied with 9 names at #1,515; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,920,150 boys got a published name in 1999; 1 in 11,708 of them was named Phoenix, which outranked 92.1% of the 11,614 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).