Given name · also Biblical Hebrew
Phinehas
“the bronze-colored one”
Phinehas is a masculine given name.
Original Hebrewפינחס
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a biblical name, Phinehas means “the bronze-colored one.”
From biblical name research
How it developed
In English usage, Phinehas developed from pꜣ-nḥsj.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1997. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Phinehas appears in 1 Samuel 2:34.
From biblical name research
Phinehas through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 585
- 585 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 51 babies
- 2025
- 51
- #2,594 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +31%
- Rising
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 51 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 2,594 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 30.7% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. In 2025, Illinois had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (5). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 375 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Phinehas’s family of names
In English usage, Phinehas developed from pꜣ-nḥsj. Phinehas has a related form in Phineas. In English usage, Phinehas has a conventional equivalent in the Hawaiian form Pinehaka.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 20
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Phinehas
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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