Phenicia — girls' name
26 babies named Phenicia in U.S. Social Security records since 1978, with the highest year being 1981. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
42% of everyone ever named Phenicia was born in this single decade.
6 babies were named Phenicia in 1981 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Phenicia
The Social Security Administration has registered 26 babies named Phenicia between 1978 and 1993, spanning 16 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Phenicia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1993. The name reached its historical peak in 1981, when 6 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Phenicia performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 11 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Phenicia shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Phenicia 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 26 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.
Phenicia at a glance
Last recorded 1993Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Phenicia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1993–1978
- Peak year (1981)
- 6
- Annual births at peak — across 16 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1993.
26 total births across 16 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1981 with 6 births in a single year.
Phenicia by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 11 births that decade — 42% of Phenicia's all-time total
Phenicia decade highlights
- Peak decade 11 births
- Runner-up 10 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Phenicia's strongest decade
11 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 42% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1978–1993 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.