Phinéas
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Phinéas is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ancient Greek [Term?], alternative form of Φινεύς (Phineús). See Phineus. Alternative source from Hebrew. See Phinehas.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 6.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 167K
- ZMZambia≈1 in 170K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 167 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Phineas in ZA South Africa, US United States, NG Nigeria and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Ancient Greek [Term?], alternative form of Φινεύς (Phineús). See Phineus. Alternative source from Hebrew. See Phinehas.
Cited for this meaning 3
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Wiktionary
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Phinéas counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Phineas | 30 |
| KE Kenya | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | — | Phineas | 7 |
| US United States | 1,996 | 1 in 167K | 2K | Phineas | 167 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | — | Phineas | 14 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 992K | listed | Phineas | 8 |
| ZM Zambia | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 174K | 1 | — | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- P. T. Barnumb. 1810USnot in their usual nameAmerican showman and politician (1810–1891)
- Phineas Gageb. 1823US19th century American railway worker who survived a large brain trauma
- Phineas Newbornb. 1931USAmerican jazz pianist (1931–1989)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Phinéas mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ancient Greek [Term?], alternative form of Φινεύς (Phineús). See Phineus. Alternative source from Hebrew. See Phinehas. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 1 other source.
- Is Phinéas a male or female name?
- Phinéas is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Phinéas?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Phinéas in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled phineas. After it come Kenya, United States, Zimbabwe and Nigeria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Phinéas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,996 people named Phinéas in 2020, about 1 in 167 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Phinéas?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/phin%C3%A9asThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Phinéas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.