Phaedra
Phaedra is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 20 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 200.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 197196 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1963
- 1,885people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,885 girls have been named Phaedra in the United States since 1963, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1971, with 96 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1982, and the 1970s alone account for 31%.
By decade
In 1971, its biggest year
Phaedra was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1971 were Jennifer, Michelle, Lisa, Kimberly and Amy. See all of 1971.
Names that rose and fell with Phaedra
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Nicolpeak 1970
- Kinapeak 1973
- Donyapeak 1970
- Larapeak 1969
- Kevapeak 1974
- Torapeak 1976
- Melaniepeak 1972
- Ranapeak 1971
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.