Fenyx
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- FEE-niks
- Origin
- Greek
- US rank, 2025
- #8,906 for boys
Fenyx is a boys' name of Greek origin, meaning “phoenix, dark red”. In 2025 it ranked 8,906th for boys in the US (8 babies).
What does Fenyx mean?
Greek: spelling of Phoenix, from Greek phoinix
“phoenix, dark red”
A spelling of Phoenix, the mythical bird that is reborn from its own ashes.
Is Fenyx a girl's or a boy's name?
Fenyx is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls and 8 boys in the US.
How popular is Fenyx in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,906th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 210,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 8 boys in the US were named Fenyx, making it the 8,906th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,734th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 15 boys. It first appears in the records in 2019. 5 girls were also named Fenyx in 2025 (14,937th for girls).
Half of all the boys named Fenyx in the US since 1880 were born between 2021 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,179 boys in the US were given Fenyx or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #298, up from #8,906 for this spelling alone.
Fenyx in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #8,906 |
| 2024 | 8 | #8,982 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,250 |
| 2022 | 12 | #6,822 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,771 |
| 2020 | 8 | #8,734 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,138 |
Names like Fenyx
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Onyx, Felix, Fletcher, Ambrose, Henry, August, Otto, Silas, Charlie, Theo, Atreus, Theodore
Other spellings of Fenyx
More Greek names
Luca, Sophia, George, Lucas, Sofia, Alexander, Sebastian, Penelope, Phoebe, Margot, Luke, Chloe, Sophie, Zoe, Iris, Maisie
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Fenyx: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/fenyx, updated 20 October 2026.