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 | |
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| 1946 | — | #3,525 | 5 | |
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| 1943 | — | #3,538 | 5 | |
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| 1940 | — | #3,459 | 5 | |
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| 1938 | — | #3,534 | 5 | |
| 1937 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
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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 | |
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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.
Where Fisher is popular in 2005
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Colorado#515 · 1 in 3,747
- Michigan#564 · 1 in 4,561
- Wisconsin#649 · 1 in 5,862
- Missouri#679 · 1 in 5,672
- Louisiana#702 · 1 in 4,824
Best ever in a state: #173 in Alaska, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado | #515 | 8 | 1 in 3,747 |
| Michigan | #564 | 12 | 1 in 4,561 |
| Wisconsin | #649 | 5 | 1 in 5,862 |
| Missouri | #679 | 6 | 1 in 5,672 |
| Louisiana | #702 | 5 | 1 in 4,824 |
| Georgia | #788 | 9 | 1 in 6,635 |
| Texas | #816 | 21 | 1 in 8,624 |
| Pennsylvania | #834 | 7 | 1 in 9,112 |
| Florida | #929 | 11 | 1 in 9,000 |
| North Carolina | #975 | 5 | 1 in 10,463 |
| California | #1,968 | 7 | 1 in 36,309 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 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 2005
Top boys' names in 2005
More about 2005
boys
1,997,305 boys got a published name in 2005; 1 in 11,612 of them was named Fisher, which outranked 92.5% of the 13,370 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).