Pharoah
Pharoah was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,478 among boys’ names; 678 Americans have been recorded with it since 1936 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Pharoah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Pharoah?
#9,478 among boys’ names, 2025
Pharoah fell from #4,511 in 2015 to #9,478 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.5 to 4.7 per million.
37 babies in 2017, the peak
Pharoah peaked in 2017, when 37 boys were given it, #3,176 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,478 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,593 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 15 | #6,145 | 8.8 |
| 2022 | 21 | #4,808 | 12.0 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,092 | 14.9 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,185 | 20.9 |
| 2019 | 33 | #3,473 | 18.4 |
| 2018 | 26 | #4,075 | 14.3 |
| 2017 | 37 | #3,176 | 20.0 |
| 2016 | 21 | #4,733 | 11.1 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #4,511 | 11.5 |
| 2014 | 18 | #5,208 | 9.4 |
| 2013 | 13 | #6,513 | 6.9 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,426 | 9.0 |
| 2011 | 14 | #6,163 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,413 | 8.9 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,738 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,663 | 6.4 |
| 2007 | 24 | #4,215 | 11.6 |
| 2006 | 18 | #5,009 | 8.8 |
| 2005 | 17 | #4,971 | 8.5 |
| 2004 | 14 | #5,714 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 16 | #4,976 | 8.1 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,915 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 17 | #4,626 | 8.7 |
| 2000 | 19 | #4,166 | 9.7 |
| 1999 | 16 | #4,481 | 8.3 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,727 | 5.8 |
| 1997 | 8 | #7,100 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,738 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,793 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,811 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,658 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,195 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,977 | 3.0 |
| 1984 | 5 | #7,040 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 6 | #6,030 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,457 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 5 | #7,005 | 2.8 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,587 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,304 | 5.1 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,861 | 5.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,793 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,927 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 10 | #3,284 | 6.2 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,299 | 5.7 |
| 1970 | 10 | #3,221 | 5.4 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,940 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Pharoah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Pharoah has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Pharoah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Pharoah, and how old are they?
An estimated 658 Americans named Pharoah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 501 people named Pharoah (10 women and girls, 491 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 549 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,675 babies since 1880, Pharoah is the second most given (25% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 81 babies (9.9%), again the second 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 Pharoah
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 Pharoah and names like it
- Compare Pharoah and PharaohBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sPharoah peaked in 2017.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Pharoah since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Pharoah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Pharoah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with PMost given first.