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Pharoah

The boy's name Pharoah has been in the national records since 1936, with 678 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 8,910th. About 660 Pharoahs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Pharoah

By the numbers

Total US births
678
Estimated living today
660
Median age today
15
Peak year
2017
Best rank
3,123rd
Rank in 2025
8,910th
First recorded
1936

How old the living Pharoahs are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 678 babies given the name since 1936, about 660 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Pharoah is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2017

The most popular boys’ names the year Pharoah peaked:

All the names of 2017

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Pharoah against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.