Fisher
Fisher was given to 319 boys in 2025, #791 among boys’ names; 6,646 Americans have been recorded with it since 1882 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,390 Americans named Fisher and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Fisher by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Fisher?
#791 among boys’ names, 2025
Fisher rose from #792 in 2015 to #791 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.15 to 0.19 per 1,000.
319 babies in 2025, the peak
Fisher peaked in 2025, when 319 boys were given it, #791 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 265 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 319 | #791 | 0.19 |
| 2024 | 265 | #892 | 0.15 |
| 2023 | 268 | #874 | 0.16 |
| 2022 | 267 | #885 | 0.15 |
| 2021 | 265 | #874 | 0.15 |
| 2020 | 246 | #908 | 0.14 |
| 2019 | 300 | #778 | 0.17 |
| 2018 | 282 | #801 | 0.16 |
| 2017 | 307 | #764 | 0.17 |
| 2016 | 310 | #774 | 0.16 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 294 | #792 | 0.15 |
| 2014 | 304 | #770 | 0.16 |
| 2013 | 247 | #863 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 262 | #834 | 0.14 |
| 2011 | 249 | #856 | 0.13 |
| 2010 | 255 | #836 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 256 | #841 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 237 | #886 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 212 | #936 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 181 | #1,017 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 172 | #999 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 166 | #996 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 122 | #1,205 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 108 | #1,258 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 107 | #1,243 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 85 | #1,447 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 69 | #1,583 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 55 | #1,816 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 47 | #1,934 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 44 | #1,994 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 19 | #3,464 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 27 | #2,709 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,081 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,769 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,222 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,177 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 5 | #3,999 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #3,868 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,856 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,690 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,710 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,627 | under 0.01 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,705 | under 0.01 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,277 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #3,833 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,509 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,528 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,397 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,347 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 6 | #3,860 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 7 | #3,525 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,041 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,453 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,529 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,065 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,046 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,206 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,198 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,476 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,609 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 8 | #2,917 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,330 | 0.01 |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,350 | 0.04 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,301 | 0.04 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,184 | 0.04 |
| 1882 | 7 | #787 | 0.06 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Fisher a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Fisher has been given almost only to boys: 65 girls in 66 years of records.
Girls and boys named Fisher: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Fisher, and how old are they?
6,390 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 6,646 Americans ever recorded as Fisher. The median Fisher alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 4,938 people named Fisher (151 women and girls, 4,787 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,838 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 14 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 107 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,560 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,700 |
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 Fisher born?
The states with the most babies named Fisher are Texas, North Carolina and Michigan, with 25% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 24 | #985 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 24 | #451 | 1.6× |
| Michigan | 21 | #412 | 1.3× |
| Alabama | 20 | #277 | 2.9× |
| Florida | 19 | #783 | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 16 | #636 | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 16 | #488 | 1.6× |
| Utah | 15 | #320 | 1.8× |
| Oklahoma | 13 | #361 | 1.7× |
| Arkansas | 11 | #315 | 2.5× |
Where Fisher is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Fisher is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1910 it was given 2.9 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 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 Fisher 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 Fisher
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 Fisher and names like it
- Compare Fisher and BostonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sFisher peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Fisher since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Fisher.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Fisher alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with FMost given first.