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Fennec: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 22 in 2025. Its best rank was #4,023 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #4,023 in 2022; #4,589 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Fennec in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,589 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #4,023.
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Fennec: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 22 boys in 2025. Peak: #4,023 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 27 (2022).
In 2025, 22 US boys were named Fennec, making it the 4,589th most common boys’ name of the year, up 2,384 places from #6,973 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 12 boys named Fennec in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #4,023, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 27. For comparison, it was #12,681 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Fennec in 11 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2015 with 5 babies. In all, 149 US babies have been given the name, 6.7% of them girls and 93% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 109 babies named Fennec.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 134 US boys were named Fennec; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 27. In 2025 that was about 1 in 77,640 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).