girls:
14.7k births since 1970
#1264 (78th percentile)
boys:
22.3k births since 1968
#769 (83rd percentile)
overall:
37k births since 1968
#1298 (83rd percentile)
The name Phoenix is the #1,298 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 37,000 recorded births since 1968. This represents the 83.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 83.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #769 (83.2% percentile) for all time with 22,268 births since 1968. For girls, it ranks #1,264 (77.9% percentile) for all time with 14,732 births since 1970.
Phoenix first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1968 (1968 for boys and 1970 for girls). Birth data for Phoenix is available in 51 out of the 56 years between 1968 and 2023 (50 years for girls and 40 years for boys). 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.
The name Phoenix has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (60.2% of all recorded births). In 2023, 58.9% of babies named Phoenix were boys.
For boys, Phoenix reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 74.4% percentile (ranked #231) with 829 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 829 births per million (ranked 74.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1987, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Phoenix ranks #261 for boys (71.4% percentile) with 679 births per million, which is 81.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Phoenix reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 71.8% percentile (ranked #266) with 629 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 629 births per million (ranked 71.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1987, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Phoenix ranks #327 for girls (65.5% percentile) with 495 births per million, which is 78.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Phoenix".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Phoenix. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.4% confident that Phoenix is pronounced as FEE-nihks, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is fee-nihks, at 14.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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