Pharoah — #5468 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Pharoah

The Social Security Administration has registered 668 babies named Pharoah between 1936 and 2024, spanning 89 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Pharoah currently holds the #5468 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 37 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Pharoah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 216 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Pharoah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 12 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Pharoah in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Pharoah 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 668 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.