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How popular is “Phoenix” in the USA?

Number of people named “Phoenix” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Phoenix” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Phoenix” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Phoenix” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Phoenix” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Phoenix” by birth year

This chart shows how “Phoenix” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1968 5 0.00000148 5 -100%
1970 5 0.000001386 5 100%
1975 14 0.000004637 9 5 29%
1976 17 0.000005603 17 100%
1977 18 0.000005667 18 100%
1978 27 0.000008507 27 100%
1979 33 0.000009919 28 5 70%
1980 18 0.000005226 18 100%
1981 10 0.000002891 10 100%
1982 13 0.000003706 13 100%
1983 15 0.000004331 15 100%
1984 11 0.000003153 6 5 9%
1985 10 0.000002802 10 100%
1986 9 0.00000253 9 100%
1987 9 0.000002496 9 100%
1988 30 0.000008119 20 10 33%
1989 55 0.000014306 38 17 38%
1990 66 0.000016698 41 25 24%
1991 58 0.00001489 32 26 10%
1992 69 0.000017963 36 33 4%
1993 94 0.000024932 50 44 6%
1994 202 0.000054335 80 122 -21%
1995 231 0.000063078 97 134 -16%
1996 214 0.000058675 98 116 -8%
1997 256 0.000070606 107 149 -16%
1998 269 0.000073133 110 159 -18%
1999 277 0.000074989 113 164 -18%
2000 317 0.000083865 137 180 -14%
2001 457 0.000122082 155 302 -32%
2002 471 0.000125993 150 321 -36%
2003 635 0.000167003 237 398 -25%
2004 698 0.000182678 280 418 -20%
2005 814 0.000211712 287 527 -29%
2006 1011 0.000255549 336 675 -34%
2007 1105 0.00027641 410 695 -26%
2008 1169 0.000297405 425 744 -27%
2009 1229 0.000321713 403 826 -34%
2010 1202 0.000325239 436 766 -27%
2011 1174 0.000320959 443 731 -25%
2012 1308 0.000357634 514 794 -21%
2013 1410 0.000386761 620 790 -12%
2014 1551 0.000418468 637 914 -18%
2015 1862 0.000503119 700 1162 -25%
2016 1967 0.000536158 730 1237 -26%
2017 2210 0.000617975 861 1349 -22%
2018 2363 0.00067209 908 1455 -23%
2019 2449 0.000705574 1027 1422 -16%
2020 2648 0.000792677 1114 1534 -16%
2021 2476 0.000730826 1037 1439 -16%
2022 2354 0.000695804 1013 1341 -14%
2023 2124 0.00064146 870 1254 -18%
2024 1961 0.000589154 734 1227 -25%

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