Pharaoh
Pharaoh was given to 73 boys in 2025, #2,051 among boys’ names; 1,997 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,980 Americans named Pharaoh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 5 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Pharaoh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Pharaoh?
#2,051 among boys’ names, 2025
Pharaoh fell from #1,450 in 2015 to #2,051 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 61.0 to 42.7 per million.
203 babies in 2019, the peak
Pharaoh peaked in 2019, when 203 boys were given it, #1,025 among boys’ names. The 73 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 73 | #2,051 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 96 | #1,731 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 116 | #1,526 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 148 | #1,293 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 137 | #1,355 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 160 | #1,197 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 203 | #1,025 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 162 | #1,178 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 145 | #1,262 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 138 | #1,312 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 117 | #1,450 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 87 | #1,746 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 55 | #2,322 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 46 | #2,666 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 39 | #2,983 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 23 | #4,334 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 41 | #2,934 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 25 | #4,111 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 19 | #4,935 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 24 | #4,068 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 17 | #4,970 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 18 | #4,730 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 15 | #5,200 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,405 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,325 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 6 | #10,004 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,945 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,863 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 8 | #7,099 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,806 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,577 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 12 | #5,032 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,869 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Pharaoh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Pharaoh has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 33 years of records.
Girls and boys named Pharaoh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Pharaoh, and how old are they?
1,980 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,997 Americans ever recorded as Pharaoh. The median Pharaoh alive today is 8 years old; half are between 5 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 916 people named Pharaoh (16 women and girls, 900 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,297 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 6 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 31 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 313 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,630 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Pharaoh born?
The states with the most babies named Pharaoh are Texas, California and New York, with 83% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #1,868 | 0.6× |
| California | 8 | #1,945 | 0.9× |
| New York | 7 | #1,526 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,026 | 0.9× |
Where Pharaoh is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Pharaoh is most over-represented in New York: since 1979 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Pharaoh with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,675 babies since 1880, Pharaoh is the most given (75% of them). In 2025 it was given to 73 of their 81 babies (90%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Pharaoh
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Pharaoh and names like it
- Compare Pharaoh and PharoahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sPharaoh peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Pharaoh since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Pharaoh.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Pharaoh alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with PMost given first.