Boy · Egyptian, through Hebrew
Phineas
Say it: FIN-ee-us
Meaning
Hebrew Pinḥas, probably from Egyptian Pa-nehsy 'the Nubian'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
A Puritan name, common in 19th-century America and used again since the 2000s.
Its wave through time
Popular now
In the United States
- 2,236 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 2018, about 1 in 13,300 boys
- 120 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The Biblical WorldAbout 1200 BC to AD 100
- The Colonial Americas1500 to 1800
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Phinehas, Pinchas, Phinias
| French | Phinées |
|---|---|
| Spanish | Finees |
| Hebrew | Pinchas |
Famous bearers
- Phinehas, grandson of Aaron
- P. T. Barnum (Phineas Taylor Barnum), American showman
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Where this comes from
- The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament
- Puritan church and town records of England and New England
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- Colonial records of the Americas
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.