Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald was given to 56 boys in 2025, #2,427 among boys’ names; 1,941 Americans have been recorded with it since 1919 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,790 Americans named Fitzgerald and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Fitzgerald by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Fitzgerald?
#2,427 among boys’ names, 2025
Fitzgerald fell from #1,987 in 2015 to #2,427 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 38.1 to 32.8 per million.
125 babies in 1964, the peak
Fitzgerald peaked in 1964, when 125 boys were given it, #690 among boys’ names. The 56 births of 2025 are 45% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | #2,427 | 32.8 |
| 2024 | 64 | #2,244 | 37.1 |
| 2023 | 63 | #2,253 | 36.8 |
| 2022 | 73 | #2,064 | 41.8 |
| 2021 | 95 | #1,714 | 54.3 |
| 2020 | 78 | #1,901 | 45.2 |
| 2019 | 93 | #1,701 | 51.8 |
| 2018 | 102 | #1,610 | 56.2 |
| 2017 | 82 | #1,823 | 44.3 |
| 2016 | 86 | #1,775 | 45.3 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 73 | #1,987 | 38.1 |
| 2014 | 57 | #2,305 | 29.7 |
| 2013 | 29 | #3,606 | 15.3 |
| 2012 | 12 | #6,744 | 6.3 |
| 2011 | 7 | #9,970 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,759 | 5.2 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,513 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 8 | #9,162 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 8 | #8,968 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 5 | #12,009 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,148 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 7 | #8,961 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,222 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,598 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,678 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,134 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,843 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,774 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,152 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,252 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,608 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 13 | #4,528 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,178 | 7.0 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,702 | 7.9 |
| 1990 | 18 | #3,355 | 8.8 |
| 1989 | 17 | #3,356 | 8.5 |
| 1988 | 15 | #3,404 | 7.8 |
| 1987 | 22 | #2,496 | 11.8 |
| 1986 | 16 | #3,041 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 16 | #2,988 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 23 | #2,251 | 12.7 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,122 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 13 | #3,358 | 7.2 |
| 1981 | 14 | #3,090 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 10 | #3,934 | 5.6 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,557 | 4.6 |
| 1978 | 13 | #3,115 | 7.9 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,459 | 6.7 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,345 | 7.0 |
| 1975 | 11 | #3,304 | 7.0 |
| 1974 | 25 | #1,850 | 15.9 |
| 1973 | 18 | #2,253 | 11.5 |
| 1972 | 19 | #2,104 | 11.7 |
| 1971 | 24 | #1,836 | 13.6 |
| 1970 | 34 | #1,442 | 18.3 |
| 1969 | 24 | #1,693 | 13.4 |
| 1968 | 16 | #2,056 | 9.2 |
| 1967 | 29 | #1,419 | 16.6 |
| 1966 | 43 | #1,139 | 24.1 |
| 1965 | 58 | #971 | 31.2 |
| 1964 | 125 | #690 | 62.7 |
| 1963 | 52 | #1,059 | 25.6 |
| 1962 | 10 | #2,730 | 4.8 |
| 1961 | 24 | #1,659 | 11.3 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,047 | 2.4 |
| 1953 | 5 | #4,000 | 2.5 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,858 | 2.8 |
| 1944 | 6 | #3,232 | 4.4 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,335 | 4.3 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,179 | 4.6 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,480 | 6.3 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,341 | 7.1 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,530 | 4.6 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,391 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Fitzgerald a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Fitzgerald has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 74 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Fitzgerald: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Fitzgerald, and how old are they?
1,790 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 1,941 Americans ever recorded as Fitzgerald. The median Fitzgerald alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 1,558 people named Fitzgerald (25 women and girls, 1,533 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,413 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 5 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 177 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 306 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 231 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 122 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 944 |
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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Fitzgerald
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 Fitzgerald and names like it
- Compare Fitzgerald and FlintBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sFitzgerald peaked in 1964.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Fitzgerald since 1910.
- The top names of 1964The year the most babies were named Fitzgerald.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Fitzgerald alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with FMost given first.