Phaëdra
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Phaëdra is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Vatican City it is the 14th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Latin Phaedra, from Ancient Greek Φαίδρᾱ (Phaídrā).
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 187K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 203K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 30K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Phaëdra itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 271 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
1,641 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Belgium, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Phaedra in US United States, GB United Kingdom, BE Belgium and 4 more and Phadra in PK Pakistan, VA Vatican City.
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)
- LatinPhaedra(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekΦαίδρᾱPhaídrā(measured from records)
From Latin Phaedra, from Ancient Greek Φαίδρᾱ (Phaídrā). The myth has been retold several times, in plays (in classical times in Euripides's Hippolytus and Seneca the Younger's Phaedra, later in Racine's Phèdre), and more recently in other media.
Sources 2
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Phaëdra 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,641 | 1 in 203K | 1.6K | Phaedra | 271 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 422K | — | Phadra | 1 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 30K | 6 | Phaedra | 38 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 187K | listed | Phaedra | 79 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 253 | 1 in 68K | 253 | Phaedra | 21 |
| GR Greece | — | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 153K | — | Phaedra | 16 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 150K | — | Phaedra | 5 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 121K | — | Phaedra | 6 |
| VA Vatican City | #14 | — | — | — | Phadra | 1 |
1,641 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1999 | 6 | #1,033 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1998 | 5 | #1,123 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Phaëdra mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin Phaedra, from Ancient Greek Φαίδρᾱ (Phaídrā). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- Is Phaëdra a male or female name?
- Phaëdra is a female 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.
- In which country does Phaëdra have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Phaëdra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled phaedra.
- How common is the name Phaëdra?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,641 people named Phaëdra in 2020, about 1 in 203 thousand residents.
- How common is Phaëdra compared with other names?
- In Vatican City, Phaëdra is the 14th most common given name of 23 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pha%C3%ABdraThe 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, “Phaëdra” — the 14th most common given name in Vatican City. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.