Fletcher
#8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births · #545 for boys in 2025, 549 births
Given to boys 98.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1892 · 45 births
- Debut · boys
- 25 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 17,419since 1880
Fletcher over time
Rank among boys' names. Fletcher has never cracked the top 200 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 | #8,362 | 12 | #545 | 549 |
| 2024 | #6,167 | 19 | #564 | 526 |
| 2023 | #9,616 | 10 | #630 | 440 |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 | #674 | 405 |
| 2021 | #7,250 | 15 | #657 | 414 |
| 2020 | #8,406 | 12 | #653 | 404 |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 | #624 | 434 |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | #606 | 445 |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #633 | 410 |
| 2016 | — | #654 | 403 | |
| 2015 | #13,006 | 7 | #665 | 387 |
| 2014 | — | #708 | 341 | |
| 2013 | — | #782 | 287 | |
| 2012 | — | #793 | 285 | |
| 2011 | — | #889 | 232 | |
| 2010 | — | #883 | 237 | |
| 2009 | — | #932 | 221 | |
| 2008 | — | #995 | 196 | |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #971 | 202 |
| 2006 | — | #1,043 | 174 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,042 | 160 | |
| 2004 | — | #963 | 174 | |
| 2003 | — | #992 | 160 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,003 | 155 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,089 | 131 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,070 | 133 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,086 | 123 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,205 | 102 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,333 | 84 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,198 | 94 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,286 | 83 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,178 | 94 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,168 | 91 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,328 | 72 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,297 | 75 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,370 | 66 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,145 | 86 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,173 | 74 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,009 | 88 | |
| 1986 | — | #925 | 97 | |
| 1985 | — | #956 | 91 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,042 | 73 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,399 | 45 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,293 | 52 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,433 | 44 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,187 | 59 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,260 | 53 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,258 | 51 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,187 | 55 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,144 | 56 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,146 | 54 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,151 | 51 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,329 | 39 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,285 | 42 | |
| 1971 | — | #979 | 69 | |
| 1970 | — | #921 | 75 | |
| 1969 | — | #959 | 64 | |
| 1968 | — | #910 | 63 | |
| 1967 | — | #843 | 72 | |
| 1966 | — | #878 | 68 | |
| 1965 | — | #826 | 79 | |
| 1964 | — | #815 | 85 | |
| 1963 | — | #869 | 75 | |
| 1962 | — | #896 | 72 | |
| 1961 | — | #793 | 92 | |
| 1960 | — | #876 | 75 | |
| 1959 | — | #893 | 74 | |
| 1958 | — | #815 | 85 | |
| 1957 | — | #780 | 93 | |
| 1956 | — | #868 | 74 | |
| 1955 | — | #708 | 107 | |
| 1954 | — | #735 | 96 | |
| 1953 | — | #714 | 100 | |
| 1952 | — | #688 | 103 | |
| 1951 | — | #659 | 113 | |
| 1950 | — | #626 | 120 | |
| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 | #613 | 123 |
| 1948 | — | #582 | 132 | |
| 1947 | — | #698 | 98 | |
| 1946 | — | #623 | 106 | |
| 1945 | — | #632 | 91 | |
| 1944 | #4,054 | 6 | #598 | 105 |
| 1943 | — | #628 | 102 | |
| 1942 | — | #591 | 111 | |
| 1941 | — | #613 | 96 | |
| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 | #620 | 92 |
| 1939 | — | #565 | 102 | |
| 1938 | — | #571 | 105 | |
| 1937 | — | #560 | 107 | |
| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 | #601 | 93 |
| 1935 | — | #566 | 104 | |
| 1934 | — | #545 | 117 | |
| 1933 | — | #495 | 128 | |
| 1932 | #4,411 | 5 | #549 | 115 |
| 1931 | — | #584 | 100 | |
| 1930 | #3,658 | 7 | #549 | 120 |
| 1929 | #3,682 | 7 | #522 | 124 |
| 1928 | #4,195 | 6 | #529 | 130 |
| 1927 | #3,561 | 8 | #526 | 135 |
| 1926 | #3,269 | 9 | #496 | 147 |
| 1925 | #3,664 | 8 | #506 | 144 |
| 1924 | — | #495 | 155 | |
| 1923 | #3,971 | 7 | #518 | 138 |
| 1922 | — | #511 | 145 | |
| 1921 | #5,099 | 5 | #476 | 165 |
| 1920 | — | #551 | 123 | |
| 1919 | — | #503 | 139 | |
| 1918 | #3,869 | 7 | #464 | 162 |
| 1917 | #4,594 | 5 | #454 | 154 |
| 1916 | — | #468 | 149 | |
| 1915 | #2,688 | 10 | #466 | 139 |
| 1914 | — | #469 | 106 | |
| 1913 | #1,883 | 11 | #475 | 83 |
| 1912 | — | #412 | 89 | |
| 1911 | — | #399 | 51 | |
| 1910 | — | #337 | 54 | |
| 1909 | — | #403 | 37 | |
| 1908 | — | #365 | 39 | |
| 1907 | — | #322 | 44 | |
| 1906 | — | #400 | 29 | |
| 1905 | — | #346 | 35 | |
| 1904 | — | #340 | 35 | |
| 1903 | — | #330 | 33 | |
| 1902 | — | #317 | 37 | |
| 1901 | — | #310 | 33 | |
| 1900 | — | #284 | 53 | |
| 1899 | — | #300 | 34 | |
| 1898 | — | #335 | 33 | |
| 1897 | — | #306 | 36 | |
| 1896 | — | #338 | 31 | |
| 1895 | — | #289 | 38 | |
| 1894 | — | #349 | 27 | |
| 1893 | — | #307 | 32 | |
| 1892 | — | #266 | 45 | |
| 1891 | — | #318 | 28 | |
| 1890 | — | #369 | 23 | |
| 1889 | — | #305 | 32 | |
| 1888 | — | #297 | 36 | |
| 1887 | — | #356 | 21 | |
| 1886 | — | #275 | 38 | |
| 1885 | — | #355 | 24 | |
| 1884 | — | #336 | 27 | |
| 1883 | — | #318 | 27 | |
| 1882 | — | #389 | 21 | |
| 1881 | — | #270 | 34 | |
| 1880 | — | #341 | 25 | |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Fletcher was already there! It came in at #341, and was given to 25 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1882–1885, when fewer than 28 boys a year got the name.
Where Fletcher is popular in 1893
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Fletcher
- 19 spots since 2024 (#564 → #545)
- 108 spots since 2020 (#653 → #545)
- 120 spots since 2015 (#665 → #545)
- Biggest jump: 116 spots in 1948 (#698 → #582)
- Biggest drop: 306 spots in 1972 (#979 → #1,285)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1892 at #266 (45 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 115 yrs · run 1880–1971
- Highest: 1 in 2,712 boys born in 1892 were named Fletcher (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,111 boys born in 2025 (0.03%)
- 19.9% of all boys named Fletcher (3,461) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 285 | #270 (1881) | #324 |
| 1890s | 327 | #266 (1892) | #318 |
| 1900s | 375 | #284 (1900) | #342 |
| 1910s | 1,126 | #337 (1910) | #445 |
| 1920s | 1,406 | #476 (1921) | #513 |
| 1930s | 1,091 | #495 (1933) | #559 |
| 1940s | 1,056 | #582 (1948) | #620 |
| 1950s | 965 | #626 (1950) | #749 |
| 1960s | 745 | #793 (1961) | #867 |
| 1970s | 545 | #921 (1970) | #1,166 |
| 1980s | 709 | #925 (1986) | #1,156 |
| 1990s | 884 | #1,086 (1999) | #1,245 |
| 2000s | 1,706 | #932 (2009) | #1,010 |
| 2010s | 3,461 | #606 (2018) | #724 |
| 2020s | 2,738 | #545 (2025) | #621 |
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.
Fletcher in 1893
Top boys' names in 1893
More about 1893
boys
112,318 boys got a published name in 1893; 1 in 3,510 of them was named Fletcher, which outranked 74.0% of the 1,179 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 36.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).