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Fischer: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 64 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,556 in 2015.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,556 in 2015; #2,215 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Fischer in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,215 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2015, at #1,556.
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Fischer: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 64 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,556 in 2015 · most boys in one year: 104 (2015).
In 2025, 64 US boys were named Fischer, making it the 2,215th most common boys’ name of the year, down 227 places from #1,988 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 78 boys named Fischer in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,556, reached in 2015. That year also had the most boys given the name: 104. For comparison, it was #1,556 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Fischer in 33 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1993 with 10 babies. In all, 2,177 US babies have been given the name, 0.9% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 963 babies named Fischer.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 808 US boys were named Fischer; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 97. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,689 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Fischer ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #1,512 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 12 | #1,512 | #1,572 |
| Florida | 5 | #1,923 | #992 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 64 | #2,215 |
| 2024 | — | — | 78 | #1,988 |
| 2023 | — | — | 81 | #1,933 |
| 2022 | — | — | 72 | #2,087 |
| 2021 | — | — | 74 | #2,007 |
| 2020 | — | — | 80 | #1,852 |
| 2019 | — | — | 83 | #1,827 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,395 | 86 | #1,780 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,691 | 97 | #1,632 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,137 | 93 | #1,689 |
| 2015 | — | — | 104 | #1,556 |
| 2014 | — | — | 101 | #1,566 |
| 2013 | — | — | 86 | #1,716 |
| 2012 | — | — | 97 | #1,605 |
| 2011 | — | — | 99 | #1,574 |
| 2010 | — | — | 98 | #1,600 |
| 2009 | — | — | 82 | #1,814 |
| 2008 | — | — | 92 | #1,669 |
| 2007 | — | — | 72 | #1,962 |
| 2006 | — | — | 78 | #1,778 |
| 2005 | — | — | 62 | #2,014 |
| 2004 | — | — | 51 | #2,257 |
| 2003 | — | — | 49 | #2,217 |
| 2002 | — | — | 45 | #2,311 |
| 2001 | — | — | 42 | #2,358 |
| 2000 | — | — | 42 | #2,309 |
| 1999 | — | — | 33 | #2,634 |
| 1998 | — | — | 29 | #2,807 |
| 1997 | — | — | 30 | #2,636 |
| 1996 | — | — | 14 | #4,457 |
| 1995 | — | — | 20 | #3,351 |
| 1994 | — | — | 14 | #4,379 |
| 1993 | — | — | 10 | #5,483 |
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).