Fischer
Fischer was given to 64 boys in 2025, #2,215 among boys’ names; 2,177 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,150 Americans named Fischer and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Fischer by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Fischer?
#2,215 among boys’ names, 2025
Fischer fell from #1,556 in 2015 to #2,215 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 54.3 to 37.5 per million.
104 babies in 2015, the peak
Fischer peaked in 2015, when 104 boys were given it, #1,556 among boys’ names. The 64 births of 2025 are 62% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 64 | #2,215 | 37.5 |
| 2024 | 78 | #1,988 | 45.3 |
| 2023 | 81 | #1,933 | 47.4 |
| 2022 | 72 | #2,086 | 41.2 |
| 2021 | 74 | #2,006 | 42.3 |
| 2020 | 80 | #1,852 | 46.3 |
| 2019 | 83 | #1,827 | 46.3 |
| 2018 | 86 | #1,780 | 47.4 |
| 2017 | 97 | #1,632 | 52.4 |
| 2016 | 93 | #1,689 | 49.0 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 104 | #1,556 | 54.3 |
| 2014 | 101 | #1,566 | 52.6 |
| 2013 | 86 | #1,715 | 45.5 |
| 2012 | 97 | #1,604 | 51.1 |
| 2011 | 99 | #1,574 | 52.1 |
| 2010 | 98 | #1,600 | 51.1 |
| 2009 | 82 | #1,813 | 41.3 |
| 2008 | 92 | #1,669 | 45.1 |
| 2007 | 72 | #1,962 | 34.7 |
| 2006 | 78 | #1,778 | 38.0 |
| 2005 | 62 | #2,010 | 31.0 |
| 2004 | 51 | #2,253 | 25.7 |
| 2003 | 49 | #2,213 | 24.8 |
| 2002 | 45 | #2,307 | 23.2 |
| 2001 | 42 | #2,354 | 21.6 |
| 2000 | 42 | #2,305 | 21.4 |
| 1999 | 33 | #2,630 | 17.2 |
| 1998 | 29 | #2,804 | 15.2 |
| 1997 | 30 | #2,632 | 15.9 |
| 1996 | 14 | #4,451 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 20 | #3,345 | 10.5 |
| 1994 | 14 | #4,373 | 7.2 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,477 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Fischer a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Fischer has been given almost only to boys: 19 girls in 33 years of records.
Girls and boys named Fischer: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Fischer, and how old are they?
2,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,177 Americans ever recorded as Fischer. The median Fischer alive today is 13 years old; half are between 8 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 1,685 people named Fischer (58 women and girls, 1,627 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,732 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 56 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 987 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,110 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Fischer born?
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Fischer with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Fischer
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 Fischer and names like it
- Compare Fischer and ZaineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sFischer peaked in 2015.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Fischer since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Fischer.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Fischer alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with FMost given first.