Meaning not yet researched.
Fidel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 84 in 2025. Its best rank was #631 in 1959.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #631 in 1959; #1,875 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Fidel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,875 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1959, at #631.
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Fidel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 84 boys in 2025. Peak: #631 in 1959 · most boys in one year: 195 (2001).
In 2025, 84 US boys were named Fidel, making it the 1,875th most common boys’ name of the year, up 52 places from #1,927 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 82 boys named Fidel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #631, reached in 1959. The most boys given the name in a single year was 195, in 2001. For comparison, it was #1,649 in 2015 and #785 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Fidel in 127 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1892 with 8 babies. In all, 11,321 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,715 babies named Fidel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 839 US boys were named Fidel; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 104. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,334 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Fidel ranked highest in California in 2025, at #942 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Fidelis, Fedele and Fidelio are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Fidelis (163), Fedele (21), Fidelio (6), Fedel (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Fidel in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 24 | #942 | #814 |
| Texas | 16 | #1,266 | #1,011 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 84 | #1,875 |
| 2024 | — | — | 82 | #1,927 |
| 2023 | — | — | 92 | #1,767 |
| 2022 | — | — | 84 | #1,876 |
| 2021 | — | — | 64 | #2,203 |
| 2020 | — | — | 81 | #1,837 |
| 2019 | — | — | 104 | #1,596 |
| 2018 | — | — | 69 | #2,071 |
| 2017 | — | — | 87 | #1,771 |
| 2016 | — | — | 92 | #1,700 |
| 2015 | — | — | 96 | #1,649 |
| 2014 | — | — | 90 | #1,695 |
| 2013 | — | — | 97 | #1,594 |
| 2012 | — | — | 100 | #1,583 |
| 2011 | — | — | 122 | #1,371 |
| 2010 | — | — | 110 | #1,485 |
| 2009 | — | — | 137 | #1,284 |
| 2008 | — | — | 141 | #1,234 |
| 2007 | — | — | 176 | #1,060 |
| 2006 | — | — | 155 | #1,122 |
| 2005 | — | — | 179 | #974 |
| 2004 | — | — | 165 | #1,000 |
| 2003 | — | — | 168 | #967 |
| 2002 | — | — | 179 | #902 |
| 2001 | — | — | 195 | #833 |
| 2000 | — | — | 178 | #886 |
| 1999 | — | — | 162 | #916 |
| 1998 | — | — | 163 | #894 |
| 1997 | — | — | 181 | #811 |
| 1996 | — | — | 176 | #819 |
| 1995 | — | — | 190 | #780 |
| 1994 | — | — | 180 | #788 |
| 1993 | — | — | 176 | #798 |
| 1992 | — | — | 158 | #840 |
| 1991 | — | — | 170 | #789 |
| 1990 | — | — | 159 | #805 |
| 1989 | — | — | 172 | #753 |
| 1988 | — | — | 150 | #769 |
| 1987 | — | — | 134 | #804 |
| 1986 | — | — | 138 | #772 |
| 1985 | — | — | 127 | #788 |
| 1984 | — | — | 111 | #831 |
| 1983 | — | — | 109 | #835 |
| 1982 | — | — | 110 | #845 |
| 1981 | — | — | 153 | #702 |
| 1980 | — | — | 110 | #844 |
| 1979 | — | — | 132 | #755 |
| 1978 | — | — | 117 | #781 |
| 1977 | — | — | 109 | #817 |
| 1976 | — | — | 111 | #788 |
| 1975 | — | — | 112 | #783 |
| 1974 | — | — | 77 | #928 |
| 1973 | — | — | 95 | #812 |
| 1972 | — | — | 80 | #895 |
| 1971 | — | — | 103 | #792 |
| 1970 | — | — | 95 | #828 |
| 1969 | — | — | 82 | #850 |
| 1968 | — | — | 67 | #880 |
| 1967 | — | — | 76 | #824 |
| 1966 | — | — | 90 | #767 |
| 1965 | — | — | 91 | #772 |
| 1964 | — | — | 75 | #885 |
| 1963 | — | — | 76 | #866 |
| 1962 | — | — | 83 | #835 |
| 1961 | — | — | 116 | #711 |
| 1960 | — | — | 109 | #738 |
| 1959 | — | — | 151 | #631 |
| 1958 | — | — | 74 | #880 |
| 1957 | — | — | 84 | #827 |
| 1956 | — | — | 77 | #856 |
| 1955 | — | — | 73 | #865 |
| 1954 | — | — | 80 | #810 |
| 1953 | — | — | 83 | #781 |
| 1952 | — | — | 85 | #763 |
| 1951 | — | — | 90 | #732 |
| 1950 | — | — | 76 | #785 |
| 1949 | — | — | 89 | #731 |
| 1948 | — | — | 80 | #756 |
| 1947 | — | — | 75 | #796 |
| 1946 | — | — | 75 | #769 |
| 1945 | — | — | 66 | #756 |
| 1944 | — | — | 85 | #676 |
| 1943 | — | — | 74 | #756 |
| 1942 | — | — | 71 | #764 |
| 1941 | — | — | 67 | #758 |
| 1940 | — | — | 55 | #851 |
| 1939 | — | — | 62 | #772 |
| 1938 | — | — | 64 | #765 |
| 1937 | — | — | 63 | #774 |
| 1936 | — | — | 49 | #875 |
| 1935 | — | — | 60 | #799 |
| 1934 | — | — | 65 | #766 |
| 1933 | — | — | 58 | #815 |
| 1932 | — | — | 48 | #942 |
| 1931 | — | — | 73 | #711 |
| 1930 | — | — | 80 | #696 |
| 1929 | — | — | 86 | #663 |
| 1928 | — | — | 76 | #735 |
| 1927 | — | — | 67 | #814 |
| 1926 | — | — | 65 | #821 |
| 1925 | — | — | 56 | #906 |
| 1924 | — | — | 72 | #795 |
| 1923 | — | — | 78 | #739 |
| 1922 | — | — | 69 | #812 |
| 1921 | — | — | 50 | #993 |
| 1920 | — | — | 55 | #932 |
| 1919 | — | — | 65 | #813 |
| 1918 | — | — | 45 | #1,001 |
| 1917 | — | — | 37 | #1,094 |
| 1916 | — | — | 39 | #1,033 |
| 1915 | — | — | 28 | #1,248 |
| 1914 | — | — | 27 | #1,112 |
| 1913 | — | — | 13 | #1,529 |
| 1912 | — | — | 14 | #1,297 |
| 1911 | — | — | 18 | #769 |
| 1910 | — | — | 8 | #1,244 |
| 1909 | — | — | 6 | #1,339 |
| 1908 | — | — | 6 | #1,275 |
| 1907 | — | — | 8 | #1,031 |
| 1906 | — | — | 6 | #1,170 |
| 1905 | — | — | 6 | #1,145 |
| 1902 | — | — | 5 | #1,195 |
| 1899 | — | — | 7 | #891 |
| 1898 | — | — | 5 | #1,192 |
| 1895 | — | — | 5 | #1,140 |
| 1893 | — | — | 7 | #860 |
| 1892 | — | — | 8 | #819 |
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).