Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1970. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Pinchas through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,199
- 1,199 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 53 babies
- 2025
- 53
- #2,528 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +26%
- Rising
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 53 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 2,528 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 26.3% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. In 2025, New York had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (35). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 847 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.
Pinchas’s family of names
Pinchas has a related form in Phineas. Pinchas is a form of Phineas. Pinchas has a related form in Pinhas.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Pinchas
- Pinchas ZukermanIsraeli-American violinist, violist and conductor (born 1948)
- Pinhas LavonIsraeli politician (1904–1976)
- Pinchas SapirIsraeli politician (1906-1975)
- Pinchas LapideIsraeli theologian, author and diplomat (1922-1997)
- Pinchas RosenGerman-born Israeli politician (1887–1978)
- Pinchas PolonskyRussian-Israeli religious philosopher (born 1958)
- Pinchas GoldschmidtRussian rabbiborn 1963
- Pinchas Shapiro of KoretzPolish rabbi1726–1790
- Pinchas SteinbergIsraeli conductorborn 1945
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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