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 2013
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Mississippi#269 · 1 in 1,226
- North Carolina#451 · 1 in 2,800
- Alabama#452 · 1 in 2,486
- Oklahoma#463 · 1 in 2,348
- Arkansas#520 · 1 in 2,850
Best ever in a state: #173 in Alaska, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #269 | 11 | 1 in 1,226 |
| North Carolina | #451 | 18 | 1 in 2,800 |
| Alabama | #452 | 9 | 1 in 2,486 |
| Oklahoma | #463 | 9 | 1 in 2,348 |
| Arkansas | #520 | 5 | 1 in 2,850 |
| Utah | #540 | 7 | 1 in 3,086 |
| Kansas | #548 | 5 | 1 in 3,120 |
| South Carolina | #558 | 6 | 1 in 3,535 |
| Georgia | #573 | 15 | 1 in 3,579 |
| Oregon | #587 | 5 | 1 in 3,596 |
| Michigan | #592 | 12 | 1 in 3,999 |
| Florida | #599 | 23 | 1 in 4,061 |
| Washington | #626 | 9 | 1 in 3,963 |
| Tennessee | #629 | 8 | 1 in 4,446 |
| Minnesota | #667 | 6 | 1 in 4,669 |
| Virginia | #684 | 8 | 1 in 5,215 |
| Louisiana | #703 | 6 | 1 in 4,119 |
| Colorado | #745 | 5 | 1 in 5,365 |
| Ohio | #809 | 9 | 1 in 6,630 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,003 | 6 | 1 in 9,959 |
| Texas | #1,093 | 16 | 1 in 11,266 |
| California | #1,395 | 12 | 1 in 18,919 |
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| Wyoming | — | — | — |
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 2013
Top girls' names in 2013
Top boys' names in 2013
More about 2013
girls
1,754,746 girls got a published name in 2013; 1 in 350,949 of them was named Fisher, which outranked 14.2% of the 19,279 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,891,581 boys got a published name in 2013; 1 in 7,658 of them was named Fisher, which outranked 93.9% of the 14,070 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).