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Fishel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 23 in 2025. Its best rank was #4,193 in 1959.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #4,193 in 1959; #4,440 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Fishel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,440 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1959, at #4,193.
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Fishel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 23 boys in 2025. Peak: #4,193 in 1959 · most boys in one year: 23 (2025).
In 2025, 23 US boys were named Fishel, making it the 4,440th most common boys’ name of the year, up 2,138 places from #6,578 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 13 boys named Fishel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #4,193, reached in 1959. The most boys given the name in a single year was 23, in 2025. For comparison, it was #7,664 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Fishel in 29 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1959 with 5 babies. In all, 303 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 107 babies named Fishel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 161 US boys were named Fishel; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 23. In 2025 that was about 1 in 74,264 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.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 23 | #4,440 |
| 2024 | — | — | 13 | #6,578 |
| 2023 | — | — | 18 | #5,316 |
| 2022 | — | — | 12 | #6,955 |
| 2021 | — | — | 18 | #5,194 |
| 2020 | — | — | 13 | #6,406 |
| 2019 | — | — | 14 | #6,204 |
| 2018 | — | — | 20 | #4,803 |
| 2017 | — | — | 15 | #5,885 |
| 2016 | — | — | 15 | #5,874 |
| 2015 | — | — | 10 | #7,664 |
| 2014 | — | — | 5 | #12,672 |
| 2013 | — | — | 10 | #7,703 |
| 2012 | — | — | 13 | #6,429 |
| 2011 | — | — | 5 | #12,913 |
| 2009 | — | — | 12 | #6,937 |
| 2008 | — | — | 5 | #13,170 |
| 2007 | — | — | 11 | #7,252 |
| 2005 | — | — | 7 | #9,442 |
| 2004 | — | — | 5 | #11,936 |
| 2002 | — | — | 6 | #9,768 |
| 2001 | — | — | 8 | #7,782 |
| 1999 | — | — | 6 | #9,075 |
| 1998 | — | — | 9 | #6,480 |
| 1996 | — | — | 7 | #7,391 |
| 1995 | — | — | 5 | #9,313 |
| 1993 | — | — | 6 | #7,967 |
| 1989 | — | — | 7 | #6,447 |
| 1959 | — | — | 5 | #4,193 |
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).