In 2025, 56 US boys were named Fitzgerald, making it the 2,427th most common boys’ name of the year, down 183 places from #2,244 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 64 boys named Fitzgerald in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #690, reached in 1964. That year also had the most boys given the name: 125. For comparison, it was #1,987 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Fitzgerald in 74 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1919 with 5 babies. In all, 1,941 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 551 babies named Fitzgerald.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 792 US boys were named Fitzgerald; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 102. In 2025 that was about 1 in 30,501 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Fitzgerald ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #846 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Gerald (451,351 babies since 1880) and Fitz (722 babies since 1880).