Meaning and history
Phoenix is a name taken from the legendary immortal bird of Egyptian and Greek mythology, said to live for centuries in the Arabian Desert before burning itself and rising from its ashes, repeating this cycle every 500 years. The bird’s name comes from Greek φοῖνιξ (phoinix), meaning “dark red.”
20062006: 675 births, rank #422
2007: 695 births, rank #418
2008: 744 births, rank #397
2009: 826 births, rank #367
2010: 766 births, rank #375
20112011: 731 births, rank #388
2012: 795 births, rank #380
2013: 790 births, rank #380
2014: 914 births, rank #353
2015: 1,163 births, rank #307
20162016: 1,237 births, rank #292
2017: 1,349 births, rank #267
2018: 1,456 births, rank #252
2019: 1,422 births, rank #256
2020: 1,534 births, rank #236
20212021: 1,446 births, rank #247
2022: 1,342 births, rank #260
2023: 1,259 births, rank #269
2024: 1,235 births, rank #275
20252025: 1,027 births, rank #329
Phoenix moved from #275 to #329 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2020, with 1,534 births.