Phineas Forename
Approximately 35,368 people bear this name
Phineas Forename Definition:
A male name. Hebrew Phinehas Serpent’s mouth’, or ‘oracle’. Used as a christian name in the 16th and 17th C (e.g. the two Phineas Fletcher’s) and occasionally since.
Phineas Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 100% | 13,253 | 1:4,115 | 780 |
| Zimbabwe | 99% | 11,921 | 1:1,294 | 231 |
| Kenya | 100% | 7,427 | 1:6,235 | 912 |
| Botswana | 100% | 728 | 1:3,001 | 528 |
| United States | 100% | 382 | 1:949,050 | 20,264 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 333 | 1:158,523 | 7,318 |
| Zambia | - | 308 | 1:51,477 | 3,198 |
| Swaziland | - | 256 | 1:5,079 | 891 |
| Nigeria | 96% | 236 | 1:752,391 | 20,633 |
| Malawi | 100% | 127 | 1:134,743 | 6,567 |
| DR Congo | 100% | 110 | 1:671,160 | 22,021 |
| England | 100% | 79 | 1:703,834 | 13,309 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 61 | 1:33,443 | 3,796 |
| Papua New Guinea | 88% | 12 | 1:679,360 | 49,627 |
| Netherlands | 75% | 10 | 1:1,690,208 | 23,366 |
| Scotland | 100% | 10 | 1:535,037 | 6,544 |
| Gabon | 100% | 9 | 1:209,260 | 2,118 |
| Jamaica | - | 9 | 1:320,359 | 9,892 |
| Philippines | 100% | 7 | 1:15,144,211 | 189,875 |
| Solomon Islands | - | 6 | 1:96,826 | 5,869 |
| Australia | - | 6 | 1:2,276,270 | 19,652 |
| Brazil | - | 5 | 1:42,847,231 | 319,361 |
| Israel | 100% | 4 | 1:2,100,730 | 20,870 |
| Kazakhstan | 100% | 4 | 1:4,436,711 | 24,678 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | - | 4 | 1:340,355 | 15,394 |
| Germany | 85% | 4 | 1:24,169,469 | 59,466 |
| Uganda | 100% | 4 | 1:10,239,230 | 65,177 |
| Russia | - | 3 | 1:48,077,901 | 98,779 |
| Wales | 100% | 3 | 1:1,031,436 | 10,092 |
| China | - | 3 | 1:455,351,927 | 89,064 |
| Congo | 50% | 3 | 1:1,669,735 | 30,542 |
| Malaysia | 100% | 2 | 1:15,224,970 | 260,513 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 2 | 1:88,908 | 5,280 |
| Belgium | - | 2 | 1:5,745,020 | 30,381 |
| Mexico | 100% | 2 | 1:62,072,214 | 96,650 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 2 | 1:3,575,996 | 76,635 |
| Iceland | - | 2 | 1:183,008 | 5,215 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 2 | 1:11,537,966 | 95,271 |
| Thailand | 100% | 2 | 1:35,032,906 | 298,615 |
| India | 100% | 2 | 1:607,438,986 | 4,324,298 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 1 | 1:51,230 | 5,014 |
| Spain | - | 1 | 1:46,529,965 | 35,592 |
| Vietnam | - | 1 | 1:92,623,113 | 10,484 |
| Sweden | 100% | 1 | 1:9,857,907 | 78,968 |
| Taiwan | - | 1 | 1:23,769,682 | 193,280 |
| Tonga | - | 1 | 1:107,436 | 779 |
| Grenada | 100% | 1 | 1:108,125 | 4,208 |
| Afghanistan | - | 1 | 1:32,623,516 | 66,536 |
| Azerbaijan | 100% | 1 | 1:9,642,944 | 42,290 |
| Benin | - | 1 | 1:10,575,843 | 90,010 |
| Cambodia | 100% | 1 | 1:16,273,330 | 74,610 |
| Canada | 100% | 1 | 1:33,133,372 | 113,810 |
| France | - | 1 | 1:66,470,340 | 85,030 |
| French Polynesia | - | 1 | 1:277,902 | 3,605 |
| Ghana | - | 1 | 1:26,986,216 | 13,521 |
| Singapore | - | 1 | 1:6,287,054 | 39,645 |
| Indonesia | - | 1 | 1:257,963,668 | 1,335,696 |
| Ireland | 100% | 1 | 1:4,643,519 | 13,375 |
| Namibia | - | 1 | 1:2,404,179 | 16,970 |
| New Zealand | - | 1 | 1:4,536,044 | 17,392 |
| Panama | - | 1 | 1:3,906,557 | 40,800 |
| Romania | - | 1 | 1:20,051,976 | 55,376 |
| Samoa | - | 1 | 1:195,190 | 1,348 |
The alternate forms: Phinéas (2) & Phinèas (1) are calculated separately.
Phineas (1,461) may also be a surname.
Phineas Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A male name. Hebrew Phinehas Serpent’s mouth’, or ‘oracle’. Used as a christian name in the 16th and 17th C (e.g. the two Phineas Fletcher’s) and occasionally since.
M. Is this from the Celtic finn, ‘white,’—as, ‘house,’ as it often is in proper-name suffixes? The Phineas Finn of Trollope’s Parliamentary tetralogy is ‘an irresistible but penniless young Irishman’ (Harvey). Or is it phoenix, Middle English fenice or phenes (Weekley, Surnames)?
The Scripture name, in Hebrew פִּינְחָס, Piynhhás, from piy-rihhós [heth] mouth of brass.
A Hebrew name, meaning: Mouth of brass.
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