Fitzgerald
#2,421 for boys in 2025, 56 births
- Peak · boys
- 1964 · 125 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,941since 1919
Fitzgerald over time
Rank among boys' names. Fitzgerald has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,421 | 56 |
| 2024 | #2,236 | 64 |
| 2023 | #2,244 | 63 |
| 2022 | #2,060 | 73 |
| 2021 | #1,710 | 95 |
| 2020 | #1,895 | 78 |
| 2019 | #1,698 | 93 |
| 2018 | #1,606 | 102 |
| 2017 | #1,820 | 82 |
| 2016 | #1,774 | 86 |
| 2015 | #1,983 | 73 |
| 2014 | #2,299 | 57 |
| 2013 | #3,582 | 29 |
| 2012 | #6,626 | 12 |
| 2011 | #9,600 | 7 |
| 2010 | #7,591 | 10 |
| 2009 | — | |
| 2008 | #8,324 | 9 |
| 2007 | #8,915 | 8 |
| 2006 | #8,732 | 8 |
| 2005 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #6,976 | 10 |
| 2003 | #8,643 | 7 |
| 2002 | #7,055 | 9 |
| 2001 | #8,339 | 7 |
| 2000 | #7,416 | 8 |
| 1999 | #7,874 | 7 |
| 1998 | #7,560 | 7 |
| 1997 | #5,642 | 10 |
| 1996 | #5,982 | 9 |
| 1995 | #5,124 | 11 |
| 1994 | #4,537 | 13 |
| 1993 | #4,447 | 13 |
| 1992 | #4,114 | 14 |
| 1991 | #3,636 | 16 |
| 1990 | #3,309 | 18 |
| 1989 | #3,325 | 17 |
| 1988 | #3,350 | 15 |
| 1987 | #2,468 | 22 |
| 1986 | #3,005 | 16 |
| 1985 | #2,942 | 16 |
| 1984 | #2,232 | 23 |
| 1983 | #3,071 | 14 |
| 1982 | #3,282 | 13 |
| 1981 | #3,030 | 14 |
| 1980 | #3,838 | 10 |
| 1979 | #4,403 | 8 |
| 1978 | #3,070 | 13 |
| 1977 | #3,386 | 11 |
| 1976 | #3,264 | 11 |
| 1975 | #3,246 | 11 |
| 1974 | #1,832 | 25 |
| 1973 | #2,216 | 18 |
| 1972 | #2,080 | 19 |
| 1971 | #1,823 | 24 |
| 1970 | #1,435 | 34 |
| 1969 | #1,680 | 24 |
| 1968 | #2,030 | 16 |
| 1967 | #1,411 | 29 |
| 1966 | #1,131 | 43 |
| 1965 | #967 | 58 |
| 1964 | #689 | 125 |
| 1963 | #1,052 | 52 |
| 1962 | #2,673 | 10 |
| 1961 | #1,635 | 24 |
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| 1955 | #3,886 | 5 |
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| 1953 | #3,798 | 5 |
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| 1948 | #3,668 | 5 |
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| 1944 | #3,109 | 6 |
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| 1942 | #3,212 | 6 |
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| 1929 | #3,959 | 5 |
| 1928 | #3,357 | 7 |
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| 1924 | #3,260 | 8 |
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| 1922 | #4,307 | 5 |
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| 1919 | #4,168 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Fitzgerald! It came in at #4,168, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1919–1923, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Fitzgerald is popular in 1965
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Carolina#363 · 1 in 4,007
- Mississippi#408 · 1 in 4,497
- Louisiana#571 · 1 in 7,317
Best ever in a state: #281 in Alabama, 1964.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | #363 | 6 | 1 in 4,007 |
| Mississippi | #408 | 5 | 1 in 4,497 |
| Louisiana | #571 | 5 | 1 in 7,317 |
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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 Fitzgerald
- 185 spots since 2024 (#2,236 → #2,421)
- 526 spots since 2020 (#1,895 → #2,421)
- 438 spots since 2015 (#1,983 → #2,421)
- Biggest jump: 363 spots in 1964 (#1,052 → #689)
- Biggest drop: 278 spots in 1965 (#689 → #967)
- Debuted 1919
- Peaked 1964 at #689 (125 births)
- Births halved by 1965, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 1964–1965
- Highest: 1 in 15,942 boys born in 1964 were named Fitzgerald (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 30,501 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 28.4% of all boys named Fitzgerald (551) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #4,168 (1919) | #4,168 |
| 1920s | 25 | #3,260 (1924) | #3,721 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 17 | #3,109 (1944) | #3,330 |
| 1950s | 10 | #3,798 (1953) | #3,842 |
| 1960s | 381 | #689 (1964) | #1,474 |
| 1970s | 174 | #1,435 (1970) | #2,676 |
| 1980s | 160 | #2,232 (1984) | #3,054 |
| 1990s | 118 | #3,309 (1990) | #5,223 |
| 2000s | 71 | #6,976 (2004) | #8,430 |
| 2010s | 551 | #1,606 (2018) | #3,858 |
| 2020s | 429 | #1,710 (2021) | #2,094 |
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.
Fitzgerald in 1965
Top boys' names in 1965
More about 1965
boys
1,860,143 boys got a published name in 1965; 1 in 32,071 of them was named Fitzgerald, which outranked 78.1% of the 4,425 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #957Terance59
- #957Thor59
- #957Vinson59
- #967Fitzgerald58
- #967Darryll58
- #967Darvin58
- #967Dennie58
- #976Clair57
- #976Darold57
- #976Edgardo57
Tied with 8 names at #967; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.