Pharaoh
Pharaoh is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 94 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 940.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2019203 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1979
- 1,917people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,917 boys have been named Pharaoh in the United States since 1979, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2019, with 203 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2018, and the 2010s alone account for 53%.
By decade
In 2019, its biggest year
Pharaoh was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2019 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, William and Elijah. See all of 2019.
Names that rose and fell with Pharaoh
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Axlpeak 2019
- Daxtonpeak 2019
- Ayvenpeak 2018
- Arrowpeak 2018
- Deckerpeak 2022
- Advikpeak 2017
- Killianpeak 2017
- Axlepeak 2021
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.