Meaning not yet researched.
Fisher: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 319 in 2025. Its best rank was #764 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #764 in 2017; #791 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Fisher in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#791 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #764.
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Fisher: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 319 boys in 2025. Peak: #764 in 2017 · most boys in one year: 319 (2025).
In 2025, 319 US boys were named Fisher, making it the 791st most common boys’ name of the year, up 101 places from #892 in 2024. That is 54 more than the 265 boys named Fisher in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #764, reached in 2017. The most boys given the name in a single year was 319, in 2025. For comparison, it was #792 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Fisher in 66 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 7 babies. In all, 6,646 US babies have been given the name, 1.0% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,847 babies named Fisher.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,829 US boys were named Fisher; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 319. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,354 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Fisher ranked highest in Alabama in 2025, at #277 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Fysher 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: Fysher (12).
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 Fisher 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 28 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 20 | #277 | #279 |
| Arkansas | 11 | #315 | #373 |
| Utah | 15 | #320 | #579 |
| Oklahoma | 13 | #361 | #355 |
| Michigan | 21 | #412 | #647 |
| Mississippi | 7 | #438 | #392 |
| North Carolina | 24 | #451 | #512 |
| Tennessee | 16 | #488 | #463 |
| Colorado | 11 | #511 | #835 |
| Oregon | 6 | #552 | — |
| Iowa | 5 | #607 | — |
| Washington | 11 | #613 | #578 |
| South Carolina | 7 | #627 | #541 |
| Georgia | 16 | #636 | #577 |
| Virginia | 9 | #756 | — |
| Florida | 19 | #783 | #591 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #824 | #627 |
| Missouri | 5 | #907 | #687 |
| Texas | 24 | #985 | #753 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,050 | #1,120 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,177 | #1,225 |
| California | 9 | #1,730 | #1,397 |
| New York | 5 | #1,846 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 319 | #791 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,086 | 265 | #892 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,975 | 268 | #874 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,124 | 267 | #885 |
| 2021 | — | — | 265 | #874 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,587 | 246 | #908 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,715 | 300 | #778 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,396 | 282 | #801 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,180 | 307 | #764 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,120 | 310 | #774 |
| 2015 | — | — | 294 | #792 |
| 2014 | — | — | 304 | #770 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,438 | 247 | #863 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,590 | 262 | #834 |
| 2011 | — | — | 249 | #856 |
| 2010 | — | — | 255 | #836 |
| 2009 | — | — | 256 | #841 |
| 2008 | — | — | 237 | #886 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,142 | 212 | #936 |
| 2006 | — | — | 181 | #1,017 |
| 2005 | — | — | 172 | #1,000 |
| 2004 | — | — | 166 | #997 |
| 2003 | — | — | 122 | #1,206 |
| 2002 | — | — | 108 | #1,261 |
| 2001 | — | — | 107 | #1,246 |
| 2000 | — | — | 85 | #1,451 |
| 1999 | — | — | 69 | #1,586 |
| 1998 | — | — | 55 | #1,819 |
| 1997 | — | — | 47 | #1,937 |
| 1996 | — | — | 44 | #1,998 |
| 1995 | — | — | 19 | #3,470 |
| 1994 | — | — | 27 | #2,714 |
| 1993 | — | — | 15 | #4,087 |
| 1992 | — | — | 6 | #7,776 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,224 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,178 |
| 1953 | — | — | 5 | #4,002 |
| 1949 | — | — | 5 | #3,870 |
| 1948 | — | — | 5 | #3,858 |
| 1946 | — | — | 5 | #3,691 |
| 1943 | — | — | 5 | #3,711 |
| 1940 | — | — | 5 | #3,628 |
| 1938 | — | — | 5 | #3,706 |
| 1937 | — | — | 6 | #3,278 |
| 1933 | — | — | 5 | #3,835 |
| 1932 | — | — | 6 | #3,511 |
| 1931 | — | — | 6 | #3,529 |
| 1930 | — | — | 7 | #3,399 |
| 1929 | — | — | 7 | #3,349 |
| 1928 | — | — | 6 | #3,862 |
| 1925 | — | — | 7 | #3,527 |
| 1924 | — | — | 6 | #4,043 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,456 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,531 |
| 1921 | — | — | 9 | #3,066 |
| 1920 | — | — | 9 | #3,047 |
| 1919 | — | — | 8 | #3,207 |
| 1918 | — | — | 14 | #2,199 |
| 1917 | — | — | 11 | #2,477 |
| 1916 | — | — | 10 | #2,610 |
| 1915 | — | — | 8 | #2,918 |
| 1914 | — | — | 9 | #2,331 |
| 1910 | — | — | 7 | #1,351 |
| 1905 | — | — | 5 | #1,302 |
| 1903 | — | — | 5 | #1,186 |
| 1882 | — | — | 7 | #787 |
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).