Meaning not yet researched.
Fiona: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 654 in 2025. Its best rank was #180 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #180 in 2017; #470 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Fiona in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#470 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #180.
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Fiona: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 654 girls in 2025. Peak: #180 in 2017 · most girls in one year: 1,683 (2017).
In 2025, 654 US girls were named Fiona, making it the 470th most common girls’ name of the year, down 65 places from #405 in 2024. That is 133 fewer than the 787 girls named Fiona in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #180, reached in 2017. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,683. For comparison, it was #219 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Fiona in 80 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1942 with 9 babies. In all, 33,964 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 14,669 babies named Fiona.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 11,158 US girls were named Fiona; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 1,683. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,458 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Fiona ranked highest in District of Columbia in 2025, at #128 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Foy (2,533 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Fionna, Fina and Fianna 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Fionna (738), Fina (283), Fianna (269), Fenna (132), Phiona (128), Fiana (73), Feona (39), Finna (26), Finau (11), Fyona (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 Fiona in the open dataset we use.
Fiona is listed as a nickname for Fionna.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 21 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 6 | #128 | #164 |
| Massachusetts | 39 | #146 | #68 |
| Delaware | 6 | #151 | — |
| Maine | 5 | #230 | #144 |
| New Jersey | 34 | #242 | #110 |
| Illinois | 43 | #243 | #128 |
| Pennsylvania | 45 | #248 | #121 |
| New Hampshire | 5 | #249 | #90 |
| Oregon | 15 | #250 | #188 |
| Maryland | 20 | #259 | #149 |
| Virginia | 31 | #267 | #194 |
| New York | 62 | #270 | #135 |
| Minnesota | 19 | #292 | #138 |
| Connecticut | 9 | #331 | #90 |
| Washington | 21 | #348 | #141 |
| Michigan | 25 | #357 | #244 |
| Colorado | 14 | #412 | #126 |
| Indiana | 15 | #457 | #186 |
| Wisconsin | 11 | #460 | #162 |
| California | 60 | #544 | #221 |
| Ohio | 19 | #544 | #179 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #647 | #604 |
| Missouri | 8 | #675 | #401 |
| Tennessee | 10 | #725 | #449 |
| North Carolina | 13 | #742 | #341 |
| Florida | 22 | #743 | #340 |
| Utah | 5 | #745 | #323 |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,116 | #444 |
| Texas | 23 | #1,169 | #583 |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,258 | #345 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 654 | #470 | — | — |
| 2024 | 787 | #405 | — | — |
| 2023 | 767 | #400 | — | — |
| 2022 | 881 | #360 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,073 | #299 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,089 | #295 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,250 | #265 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,414 | #224 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,683 | #180 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,560 | #211 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,495 | #219 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,648 | #204 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,640 | #197 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,503 | #209 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,211 | #266 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,265 | #258 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,051 | #314 | — | — |
| 2008 | 964 | #346 | — | — |
| 2007 | 918 | #354 | — | — |
| 2006 | 991 | #333 | — | — |
| 2005 | 844 | #371 | — | — |
| 2004 | 970 | #328 | 5 | #11,935 |
| 2003 | 885 | #351 | — | — |
| 2002 | 858 | #347 | — | — |
| 2001 | 694 | #414 | — | — |
| 2000 | 603 | #461 | — | — |
| 1999 | 552 | #476 | — | — |
| 1998 | 485 | #520 | — | — |
| 1997 | 459 | #522 | — | — |
| 1996 | 375 | #610 | — | — |
| 1995 | 252 | #791 | — | — |
| 1994 | 210 | #909 | — | — |
| 1993 | 196 | #965 | — | — |
| 1992 | 180 | #1,035 | — | — |
| 1991 | 220 | #893 | — | — |
| 1990 | 204 | #930 | — | — |
| 1989 | 159 | #1,064 | — | — |
| 1988 | 131 | #1,168 | — | — |
| 1987 | 109 | #1,285 | — | — |
| 1986 | 94 | #1,370 | — | — |
| 1985 | 90 | #1,412 | — | — |
| 1984 | 68 | #1,620 | — | — |
| 1983 | 88 | #1,360 | — | — |
| 1982 | 73 | #1,602 | — | — |
| 1981 | 80 | #1,505 | — | — |
| 1980 | 63 | #1,752 | — | — |
| 1979 | 65 | #1,695 | — | — |
| 1978 | 52 | #1,896 | — | — |
| 1977 | 58 | #1,763 | — | — |
| 1976 | 56 | #1,721 | — | — |
| 1975 | 58 | #1,658 | — | — |
| 1974 | 52 | #1,741 | — | — |
| 1973 | 68 | #1,435 | — | — |
| 1972 | 69 | #1,418 | — | — |
| 1971 | 59 | #1,603 | — | — |
| 1970 | 60 | #1,585 | — | — |
| 1969 | 67 | #1,426 | — | — |
| 1968 | 50 | #1,633 | — | — |
| 1967 | 71 | #1,287 | — | — |
| 1966 | 52 | #1,557 | — | — |
| 1965 | 38 | #1,866 | — | — |
| 1964 | 44 | #1,756 | — | — |
| 1963 | 35 | #1,991 | — | — |
| 1962 | 26 | #2,376 | — | — |
| 1961 | 35 | #1,967 | — | — |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,763 | — | — |
| 1959 | 16 | #3,022 | — | — |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,789 | — | — |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,770 | — | — |
| 1956 | 10 | #3,995 | — | — |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,405 | — | — |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,805 | — | — |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,349 | — | — |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,840 | — | — |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,515 | — | — |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,867 | — | — |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,845 | — | — |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,818 | — | — |
| 1943 | 19 | #2,022 | — | — |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,261 | — | — |
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).