Pinchas

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Pinechas (of Egyptian origin)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/pɪntʃəz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Pinchas is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country. In Qatar it is the 81st most common given name.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 393K(measured from records)
  • ILIsrael≈1 in 1.2Kas פנחס
  • QAQatar≈1 in 1.4Kas פנחס

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 Pinchas 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.

Israel (inferred from the name graph)

≈7,300 named פנחס, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
99 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 393K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PinchasLatin(measured from records)
פנחסHebrew(measured from records)
ПінькасCyrillic(measured from records)

7 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled פנחס in IL Israel, MA Morocco, US United States and 3 more and פינחס in LY Libya.

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)

Pinechas (of Egyptian origin). Vars. (of i); Pell; Piller, Peller, Puller; Pillman. Pel(l)man. Hebr. male given name Vars.: Pinhas; Pinches (from the Yid. form Pinkhes)\ Pinchasi, Pinhas(s)i, Pinhasy (with the Hebr. ending -i). See also Finch. Pul(l)man; Pilling.

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pinchas 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.

Where Pinchas is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IL Israel#106≈7,300 est.≈1 in 1.2K4.1Kפנחס63
RO Romania#294≈5,500 est.≈1 in 3.9K—פנחס5
MA Morocco#536≈3,400 est.≈1 in 10K—פנחס4
AF Afghanistan—≈2,600 est.≈1 in 14K—Pinchas3
QA Qatar#81≈1,800 est.≈1 in 1.4K—פנחס1
LY Libya—≈870 est.≈1 in 7.9K—פינחס3
US United States—8471 in 393K839פנחס99
LB Lebanon#389≈800 est.≈1 in 6.8K—פנחס3

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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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).

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Pinchas is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Yiddish form of PHINEAS , still in regular use as a Jewish name. Variant: Pinhas .

    as a word

  • In Galician, second-person singular present indicative of pinchar

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Pinchas Rosen, b. 1887Pinchas Lavon, b. 1904Pinchas Sapir, b. 1906Pinhas Hirschprung, b. 1912Pinchas Lapide, b. 1922Pinchas Steinberg, b. 1945Pinchas Zukerman, b. 1948Pinchas Polonsky, b. 1958Pinchas Goldschmidt, b. 1963Pini Tavger, b. 1978

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

Informalשלום Pinchas,Hi Pinchas, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 20 sources across 12 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Pinchas come from?
Pinechas (of Egyptian origin). Vars. (of i); Pell; Piller, Peller, Puller; Pillman. Pel(l)man. Hebr. male given name Vars.: Pinhas; Pinches (from the Yid. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
Is Pinchas a male or female name?
Pinchas 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.
How do you pronounce Pinchas?
A machine transcription gives /pɪntʃəz/ (IPA) for Hebrew.
What does the name Pinchas mean?
Recorded meaning: Pinechas (of Egyptian origin).
What are other forms of the name Pinchas?
In the etymology graph, Phineas, Phinehas and Finees are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Pinchas have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 7.3 thousand people named פנחס in Israel, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Pinchas most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pinchas is densest in the United States — about 1 in 393 thousand people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Pinchas?
In the United States, the national register counted 847 people named Pinchas in 2020, about 1 in 393 thousand residents.
How common is Pinchas compared with other names?
In Israel, Pinchas is the 106th most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.

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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, “Pinchas” — the 106th most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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