Fishel — #6520 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Fishel

The Social Security Administration has registered 280 babies named Fishel between 1959 and 2024, spanning 66 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Fishel currently holds the #6520 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 20 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Fishel performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 107 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Fishel shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 170 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Fishel in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Fishel in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 280 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.