boys:
2.6k births since 1880
#2489 (46th percentile)
overall:
2.6k births since 1880
#5273 (32nd percentile)
The name Phineas is the #5,273 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,578 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 31.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 31.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,489 (45.7% percentile) for all time with 2,578 births since 1880.
Phineas has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Phineas is available in 72 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Phineas reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 15.4% percentile (ranked #745) with 69 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 70 births per million (ranked 14.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Phineas ranks #819 for boys (10.1% percentile) with 53 births per million, which is 75.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Phineas".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Phineas. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 74.3% confident that Phineas is pronounced as FIH-nee-uhs, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is fih-NEE-uhs, at 8.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like F IH1 N IY0 AH0 S) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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