Pharaoh — #1757 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Pharaoh

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,917 babies named Pharaoh between 1979 and 2024, spanning 46 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Pharaoh currently holds the #1757 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 203 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Pharaoh performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,015 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Pharaoh shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 210 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Pharaoh in 26 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Pharaoh in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,917 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.