Pinchas
A Hebrew name kept in Jewish tradition, read as "serpent's mouth". In Poland it belongs to roughly 30 men and no one else: most Poles have never met a Pinchas, and the record shows no boys given it since 2000.
Pinchas Pronunciation
Pinchas is pronounced PEEN-khahs (/ˈpinxas/).
What Pinchas means
Where Pinchas comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Pinchas comes from Hebrew, and the name reaches back to the Torah, where Phinehas is a grandson of Aaron the priest. Scholars have long argued that the older root is Egyptian rather than Hebrew, giving the sense "the Nubian," a word for someone dark of skin. A second reading pulls the name toward "mouth of a serpent." Both meanings sit inside the Polish gloss the registers keep: nubijczyk and wyrocznia.
The biblical Pinchas acts. In the Book of Numbers he steps into a plague and stops it, and a whole weekly Torah portion, Parashat Pinchas, still carries his name each summer.
Among Jewish families the name stayed in steady use, often honoring a grandfather. It has no Polish diminutive and no cross-gender pair. A Polish clerk at the urząd writes it as given, Pinchas, with no local softening.
The sense of "oracle" attached later, drawn from that image of a speaking mouth. The literal ground is older and stranger. A Nubian, or a serpent's mouth.
How many people are named Pinchas
1 in 711540 men in Poland is named Pinchas. 30 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7537 among male names.
Pinchas as a middle name
Pinchas is a first name for 30 men in Poland and a middle name for another 22, a 58/42 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1881st, between Petros (22) and Quinn (22).
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#1879 Pekka22
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#1880 Petros22
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#1881 Pinchas22
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#1882 Quinn22
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#1883 Reiner22