Fisher
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #15,293 · #791 for boys in 2025, 319 births
Given to boys 99.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1882 · 7 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 6,581since 1882
Fisher over time
Rank among boys' names. Fisher has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #791 | 319 | |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | #891 | 265 |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #874 | 268 |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #885 | 267 |
| 2021 | — | #871 | 265 | |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 | #907 | 246 |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | #777 | 300 |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | #801 | 282 |
| 2017 | #12,713 | 7 | #763 | 307 |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #774 | 310 |
| 2015 | — | #790 | 294 | |
| 2014 | — | #769 | 304 | |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #862 | 247 |
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 | #834 | 262 |
| 2011 | — | #855 | 249 | |
| 2010 | — | #836 | 255 | |
| 2009 | — | #841 | 256 | |
| 2008 | — | #886 | 237 | |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 | #934 | 212 |
| 2006 | — | #1,016 | 181 | |
| 2005 | — | #999 | 172 | |
| 2004 | — | #995 | 166 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,205 | 122 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,258 | 108 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,242 | 107 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,448 | 85 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,580 | 69 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,811 | 55 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,933 | 47 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,986 | 44 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,432 | 19 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,685 | 27 | |
| 1993 | — | #4,020 | 15 | |
| 1992 | — | #7,422 | 6 | |
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| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
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| 1957 | — | #3,993 | 5 | |
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| 1953 | — | #3,798 | 5 | |
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| 1949 | — | #3,690 | 5 | |
| 1948 | — | #3,668 | 5 | |
| 1947 | — | — | ||
| 1946 | — | #3,525 | 5 | |
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| 1943 | — | #3,538 | 5 | |
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| 1940 | — | #3,459 | 5 | |
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | — | #3,534 | 5 | |
| 1937 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
| 1936 | — | — | ||
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| 1933 | — | #3,642 | 5 | |
| 1932 | — | #3,361 | 6 | |
| 1931 | — | #3,390 | 6 | |
| 1930 | — | #3,289 | 7 | |
| 1929 | — | #3,247 | 7 | |
| 1928 | — | #3,697 | 6 | |
| 1927 | — | — | ||
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| 1925 | — | #3,408 | 7 | |
| 1924 | — | #3,867 | 6 | |
| 1923 | — | #4,239 | 5 | |
| 1922 | — | #4,307 | 5 | |
| 1921 | — | #2,986 | 9 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,967 | 9 | |
| 1919 | — | #3,115 | 8 | |
| 1918 | — | #2,165 | 14 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,423 | 11 | |
| 1916 | — | #2,543 | 10 | |
| 1915 | — | #2,829 | 8 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,271 | 9 | |
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| 1910 | — | #1,314 | 7 | |
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| 1905 | — | #1,233 | 5 | |
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| 1903 | — | #1,130 | 5 | |
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| 1882 | — | #754 | 7 | |
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Fisher! It came in at #754, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1883–1909, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Fisher
- 100 spots since 2024 (#891 → #791)
- 116 spots since 2020 (#907 → #791)
- 1 spot since 2015 (#790 → #791)
- Biggest jump: 210 spots in 2004 (#1,205 → #995)
- Biggest drop: 130 spots in 2020 (#777 → #907)
- Debuted 1882
- Peaked 1882 at #754 (7 births)
- Births halved by 1883, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 22 yrs · run 2007–2025
- Highest: 1 in 5,354 boys born in 2025 were named Fisher (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #754 in 1882, was only 1 in 16,241 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 42.7% of all boys named Fisher (2,810) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 7 | #754 (1882) | #754 |
| 1890s | 0 | — | — |
| 1900s | 10 | #1,130 (1903) | #1,182 |
| 1910s | 67 | #1,314 (1910) | #2,380 |
| 1920s | 54 | #2,967 (1920) | #3,590 |
| 1930s | 35 | #3,175 (1937) | #3,399 |
| 1940s | 25 | #3,459 (1940) | #3,576 |
| 1950s | 10 | #3,798 (1953) | #3,896 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 5 | #4,986 (1972) | #4,986 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 282 | #1,580 (1999) | #3,109 |
| 2000s | 1,646 | #841 (2009) | #1,082 |
| 2010s | 2,810 | #763 (2017) | #806 |
| 2020s | 1,630 | #791 (2025) | #870 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Fisher in 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 320,916 of them was named Fisher, which outranked 13.7% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,421 names at #15,194; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 6,383 of them was named Fisher, which outranked 93.9% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).