Phoenyx — #4259 US unisex name
687 babies named Phoenyx in U.S. Social Security records since 1999, with the highest year being 2020. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 76% of names given to girls today.
53% of everyone ever named Phoenyx was born in this single decade.
64 babies were named Phoenyx in 2020 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Phoenyx
The Social Security Administration has registered 687 babies named Phoenyx between 1999 and 2024, spanning 26 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Phoenyx currently holds the #4259 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2020, when 64 babies received it in a single year. Phoenyx is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 362 additional births since 2004.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Phoenyx performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 362 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Phoenyx shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 36 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Phoenyx in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Phoenyx 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 687 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.
Phoenyx at a glance
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Current rank
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Phoenyx popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1999
- Peak year (2020)
- 64
- Annual births at peak — across 26 years of records
Currently ranks #4259 among girls.
687 total births across 26 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2020 with 64 births in a single year.
Phoenyx popularity over time — boys
362 total births recorded since 2004 (Phoenyx as boys' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The boys' variant of Phoenyx accounts for 35% of total recorded use across both genders.
Phoenyx by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 362 births that decade — 53% of Phoenyx's all-time total
Phoenyx decade highlights
- Peak decade 362 births
- Runner-up 241 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Phoenyx's strongest decade
362 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 53% of all-time use.
Phoenyx by state
Where Phoenyx concentrates geographically — total births since 1999
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 36 | 5.2% |
| #2 | Texas | | 24 | 3.5% |
| #3 | Illinois | | 7 | 1.0% |
| #4 | New York | | 5 | 0.7% |
| #5 | Ohio | | 5 | 0.7% |
| #6 | Pennsylvania | | 5 | 0.7% |
36 of 687 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 6 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 5.2% of nationwide
- Texas 3.5% of nationwide
- Illinois 1.0% of nationwide
- New York 0.7% of nationwide
- Ohio 0.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 6 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 5.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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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, 1999–2024 (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.