Phares
Phares was last recorded in 2002, when 5 babies were given it; 219 Americans have been recorded with it between 1912 and 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Phares by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Phares?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,003, in 2002; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1924, the peak
Phares peaked in 1924, when 13 boys were given it, #2,442 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 5 | #12,003 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,779 | 2.5 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,680 | 3.2 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,253 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,226 | 2.5 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,594 | 3.4 |
| 1948 | 6 | #3,578 | 3.4 |
| 1946 | 11 | #2,370 | 6.8 |
| 1944 | 8 | #2,804 | 5.9 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,477 | 4.3 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | 6 | #3,409 | 4.9 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,061 | 6.0 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,893 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,086 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,088 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,038 | 5.0 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,324 | 6.7 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,409 | 4.6 |
| 1928 | 10 | #2,799 | 9.0 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,089 | 5.3 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,677 | 4.5 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,086 | 5.4 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,442 | 11.5 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,111 | 8.2 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,784 | 6.4 |
| 1921 | 10 | #2,934 | 9.1 |
| 1920 | 10 | #2,915 | 9.4 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,649 | 5.1 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,302 | 7.9 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,876 | 6.5 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,413 | 13.7 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,480 | 14.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Phares a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Phares has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Phares: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Phares, and how old are they?
An estimated 46 Americans named Phares and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 190 people named Phares (8 women and girls, 182 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 62 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Phares?
Phares is a less common spelling of Fares: SSA has recorded 219 Phares and 1,063 Fares since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,282 babies since 1880, Phares is the second most given (17% of them). In 2025 none of their 48 babies recorded by SSA was a Phares (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Phares
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 Phares and names like it
- Compare Phares and FaresBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sPhares peaked in 1924.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Phares since 1910.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Phares.
- Names starting with PMost given first.