Fidela
Fidela was last recorded in 2001, when 5 babies were given it; 410 Americans have been recorded with it between 1906 and 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Fidela by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Fidela?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,159, in 2001; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
21 babies in 1922, the peak
Fidela peaked in 1922, when 21 girls were given it, #1,916 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 5 | #16,159 | 2.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,186 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,730 | 4.1 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,890 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,090 | 3.1 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,204 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,615 | 2.9 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,500 | 4.1 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,008 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,944 | 2.7 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 8 | #4,237 | 4.3 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,149 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,066 | 4.7 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,457 | 5.8 |
| 1948 | 8 | #3,980 | 4.7 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,923 | 3.4 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,195 | 4.6 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,353 | 4.3 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,863 | 5.2 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,616 | 6.1 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,606 | 10.3 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,572 | 10.6 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,471 | 11.4 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,592 | 10.9 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,646 | 4.7 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,056 | 8.5 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,587 | 10.7 |
| 1929 | 16 | #2,124 | 14.3 |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,015 | 8.7 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,005 | 5.9 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,940 | 9.3 |
| 1925 | 11 | #3,004 | 9.0 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,345 | 12.8 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,396 | 12.4 |
| 1922 | 21 | #1,916 | 17.5 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,680 | 4.9 |
| 1920 | 20 | #1,974 | 16.7 |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,079 | 8.8 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,881 | 9.5 |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,358 | 12.9 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,416 | 12.4 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,560 | 7.1 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,328 | 7.9 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,408 | 12.8 |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,052 | 16.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Fidela a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Fidela has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Fidela: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Fidela, and how old are they?
An estimated 112 Americans named Fidela and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (27% of everyone recorded); the median is 75 years old and half are between 67 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,165 people named Fidela (1,165 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 149 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Fidela born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 260 | not ranked | 11.5× |
Where Fidela is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Fidela is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 11.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Fidela with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,142 babies since 1880, Fidela is the second most given (36% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Fidela
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Fidela and names like it
- Compare Fidela and FideliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sFidela peaked in 1922.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Fidela since 1910.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Fidela.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Fidela alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with FMost given first.