Phenyx
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Phenyx is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “phoenix, the mythical firebird”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Phenyx mean?
Greek: respelling of Phoenix
“phoenix, the mythical firebird”
The phoenix is the mythical bird that rises reborn from its own ashes.
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Is Phenyx a girl's or a boy's name?
Phenyx is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Phenyx in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #11,928among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Phenyx, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 19 girls. It first appears in the records in 2010.
2025 had fewer girls named Phenyx than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Phenyx in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 646 girls in the US were given Phenyx or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #491, up from #11,928 for this spelling alone.
Phenyx in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,941 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,224 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,106 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,801 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,413 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,577 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
Names like Phenyx
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Phoebe Wrenley Lyra Palmer Oaklynn Collins Isla Paisley Lennox Harlow Onyx Haisley
Other spellings of Phenyx
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