Phelix
Phelix was given to 10 boys in 2025, #8,073 among boys’ names; 221 Americans have been recorded with it since 1924 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Phelix by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Phelix?
#8,073 among boys’ names, 2025
Phelix rose from #11,728 in 2015 to #8,073 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.1 to 5.9 per million.
19 babies in 2017, the peak
Phelix peaked in 2017, when 19 boys were given it, #5,060 among boys’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 53% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #8,073 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 10 | #8,166 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,426 | 8.2 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,810 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 8 | #9,468 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,332 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,731 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 10 | #8,010 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 19 | #5,060 | 10.3 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,450 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #11,728 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,392 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,416 | 5.8 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,980 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 7 | #10,495 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 5 | #13,746 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,675 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 5 | #14,084 | 2.5 |
| 2005 | 5 | #12,847 | 2.5 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,865 | 2.6 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,722 | 3.2 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,463 | 3.9 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,423 | 2.3 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,254 | 2.4 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,039 | 5.4 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,087 | 5.4 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,812 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Phelix a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Phelix has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Phelix: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Phelix, and how old are they?
An estimated 198 Americans named Phelix and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 219 people named Phelix (8 women and girls, 211 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 144 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 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 Phelix?
Phelix is a less common spelling of Felix: SSA has recorded 221 Phelix and 84,180 Felix since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 84,401 babies since 1880, Phelix is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 2,084 babies (<1%), 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 Phelix
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 Phelix and names like it
- Compare Phelix and FelixBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sPhelix peaked in 2017.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Phelix.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Phelix alive today were born 2013-2025.
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