Fiona
#470 for girls in 2025, 654 births · Last seen for boys in 2004 at #11,356
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2017 · 1,683 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 33,959since 1942
Fiona over time
Rank among girls' names. Fiona has never cracked the top 100 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #470 | 654 | — | |
| 2024 | #405 | 787 | — | |
| 2023 | #400 | 767 | — | |
| 2022 | #359 | 881 | — | |
| 2021 | #299 | 1,073 | — | |
| 2020 | #294 | 1,089 | — | |
| 2019 | #265 | 1,250 | — | |
| 2018 | #224 | 1,414 | — | |
| 2017 | #180 | 1,683 | — | |
| 2016 | #211 | 1,560 | — | |
| 2015 | #219 | 1,495 | — | |
| 2014 | #204 | 1,648 | — | |
| 2013 | #197 | 1,640 | — | |
| 2012 | #209 | 1,503 | — | |
| 2011 | #266 | 1,211 | — | |
| 2010 | #258 | 1,265 | — | |
| 2009 | #314 | 1,051 | — | |
| 2008 | #346 | 964 | — | |
| 2007 | #352 | 918 | — | |
| 2006 | #333 | 991 | — | |
| 2005 | #371 | 844 | — | |
| 2004 | #328 | 970 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #351 | 885 | — | |
| 2002 | #346 | 858 | — | |
| 2001 | #414 | 694 | — | |
| 2000 | #461 | 603 | — | |
| 1999 | #476 | 552 | — | |
| 1998 | #520 | 485 | — | |
| 1997 | #522 | 459 | — | |
| 1996 | #610 | 375 | — | |
| 1995 | #790 | 252 | — | |
| 1994 | #908 | 210 | — | |
| 1993 | #961 | 196 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,034 | 180 | — | |
| 1991 | #892 | 220 | — | |
| 1990 | #930 | 204 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,063 | 159 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,164 | 131 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,280 | 109 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,367 | 94 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,410 | 90 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,616 | 68 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,358 | 88 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,599 | 73 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,504 | 80 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,749 | 63 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,694 | 65 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,893 | 52 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,761 | 58 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,714 | 56 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,655 | 58 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,733 | 52 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,433 | 68 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,414 | 69 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,594 | 59 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,584 | 60 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,423 | 67 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,625 | 50 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,281 | 71 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,548 | 52 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,854 | 38 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,747 | 44 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,981 | 35 | — | |
| 1962 | #2,357 | 26 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,955 | 35 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,729 | 20 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,980 | 16 | — | |
| 1958 | #2,755 | 18 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,696 | 11 | — | |
| 1956 | #3,910 | 10 | — | |
| 1955 | #5,208 | 6 | — | |
| 1954 | #3,718 | 10 | — | |
| 1953 | #4,226 | 8 | — | |
| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 | — | |
| 1951 | #4,385 | 7 | — | |
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| 1949 | #4,673 | 6 | — | |
| 1948 | #4,651 | 6 | — | |
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| 1944 | #3,687 | 7 | — | |
| 1943 | #1,994 | 19 | — | |
| 1942 | #3,194 | 9 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Fiona! It came in at #3,194, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1945–1947, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Fiona is popular in 1990
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Massachusetts#388 · 1 in 2,767
- New York#464 · 1 in 3,051
- Wisconsin#639 · 1 in 5,866
- Arizona#658 · 1 in 4,377
- Washington#681 · 1 in 5,151
Best ever in a state: #28 in Maine, 2014.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | #388 | 14 | 1 in 2,767 |
| New York | #464 | 40 | 1 in 3,051 |
| Wisconsin | #639 | 5 | 1 in 5,866 |
| Arizona | #658 | 6 | 1 in 4,377 |
| Washington | #681 | 6 | 1 in 5,151 |
| New Jersey | #695 | 8 | 1 in 5,996 |
| California | #718 | 47 | 1 in 5,584 |
| North Carolina | #756 | 6 | 1 in 6,811 |
| Illinois | #1,028 | 8 | 1 in 9,813 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,042 | 6 | 1 in 12,100 |
| Florida | #1,411 | 5 | 1 in 15,826 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Fiona
- 65 spots since 2024 (#405 → #470)
- 176 spots since 2020 (#294 → #470)
- 251 spots since 2015 (#219 → #470)
- Biggest jump: 180 spots in 1996 (#790 → #610)
- Biggest drop: 142 spots in 1992 (#892 → #1,034)
- Debuted 1942
- Peaked 2017 at #180 (1,683 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 35 yrs · run 1993–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,026 girls born in 2017 were named Fiona (0.10%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,458 girls born in 2025 (0.04%)
- 43.2% of all girls named Fiona (14,669) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 47 | #1,994 (1943) | #3,640 |
| 1950s | 91 | #2,755 (1958) | #4,049 |
| 1960s | 438 | #1,281 (1967) | #1,850 |
| 1970s | 597 | #1,414 (1972) | #1,648 |
| 1980s | 955 | #1,063 (1989) | #1,411 |
| 1990s | 3,133 | #476 (1999) | #764 |
| 2000s | 8,778 | #314 (2009) | #362 |
| 2010s | 14,669 | #180 (2017) | #223 |
| 2020s | 5,251 | #294 (2020) | #371 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Fiona in 1990
Top girls' names in 1990
More about 1990
girls
1,898,547 girls got a published name in 1990; 1 in 9,307 of them was named Fiona, which outranked 93.9% of the 15,234 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).