Pharoah vs Pharrell
American parents have registered 678 Pharoahs since 1880, against 460 Pharrells. But in 2025 it was Pharrell that was commoner, 11 babies to 8.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Pharoah Pharrell
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 48 years in which either name was published, Pharoah for 36 years and Pharrell for 12 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.
Side by side
| Pharoah | Pharrell | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 678 | 460 |
| Most in one year | 37 | 67 |
| Babies in 2025 | 8 | 11 |
| Estimated living today | 660 | 460 |
| Median age today | 15 | 16 |
| Peak year | 2017 | 2003 |
| Best rank | 3,123rd boys | 1,781st boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 8,910th | 7,194th |
| First recorded | 1936 | 2003 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 678 | 0 / 460 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Pharoah and Pharrell.