Memphis

Meaning: Enduring and beautiful
Origin: From Egyptian men-nefer (from Egyptian, via Greek and Latin Memphis)

Boy's name · #640 in the US (2025) · 2020s wave

76% boys · 24% girls — Memphis is also given to girls: 143 in 2025, about 24% in recent years. Memphis →

Popularity over time

Memphis's best rank, #404, came in 2021; it has settled back to #640 today. Roughly 10,000 boys have been named Memphis since 1916.

In recent years, Memphis ran 3–4× its national rate in West Virginia and Kentucky.

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 35 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

See how Memphis ranks in other countries and regions.

#2,365 in England & Wales (2025) · #2,804 in France (2025) · #675 in Canada (2024).

Memphis Depay — Dutch association football player (born 1994)
Memphis Slim — American recording artist; blues pianist, singer, and composer (1915–1988)
Memphis Bleek — American rapper and hype man
Memphis Pal Moore — American boxer (1894–1953)
Memphis Willie B. — American Memphis blues guitarist, singer and songwriter

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