Boy Names That Start With F
Boys' names beginning with F, ranked by how many babies actually got them — not by editorial preference — plus which ones are climbing and how the letter itself has moved.
- Share of boys, 2025
- 1.2%
- vs 0.84% in 2000
- Names in use
- 200
- 642 recorded since 1880
- Letter peaked
- 1880
- at 5.9% of names
- Rank among 26 letters
- #21
- by 2025 share
How F has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name starting with F, year by year. Plotted as a share rather than a count — raw counts track how many babies were born, so every letter would appear to peak in 1957.
| Save name | Name & meaning | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 584#514 | Down 86 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 80#1,936 | Down 134 rank positions in five years | 1924 | |||
| 769#420 | Up 62 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 728#435 | Up 49 rank positions in five years | 1951 | |||
| 63#2,237 | Down 206 rank positions in five years | 1926 | |||
| 1,069#322 | Down 26 rank positions in five years | 1993 | |||
| 909#359 | Up 55 rank positions in five years | 1933 | |||
| 819#387 | Down 45 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 2,064#175 | Up 50 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 116#1,510 | Up 242 rank positions in five years | 1947 | |||
| 94#1,736 | Down 308 rank positions in five years | 1953 | |||
| 850#374 | Up 88 rank positions in five years | 1994 | |||
| 655#468 | Down 45 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 256#922 | Up 51 rank positions in five years | 1959 | |||
| 1,702#206 | Down 27 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 244#955 | Down 83 rank positions in five years | 2001 | |||
| 127#1,422 | Down 155 rank positions in five years | 1947 | |||
| 1,017#333 | Down 28 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 344#750 | Up 48 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 549#547 | Up 107 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 264#901 | Up 61 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 569#526 | Down 117 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 84#1,875 | Down 38 rank positions in five years | 2001 | |||
| 642#474 | Down 15 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 348#747 | Up 198 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 73#2,043 | Up 105 rank positions in five years | 1976 | |||
| 145#1,329 | Up 9 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 47#2,727 | Down 95 rank positions in five years | 1956 | |||
| 299#828 | Down 169 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 319#791 | Up 117 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 340#757 | Down 146 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 71#2,083 | Down 313 rank positions in five years | 2005 | |||
| 129#1,411 | Down 491 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 54#2,495 | Up 2,255 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 150#1,299 | Up 177 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 119#1,487 | Down 69 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 50#2,613 | Down 137 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 67#2,153 | Down 99 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 61#2,293 | Down 343 rank positions in five years | 1959 | |||
| 64#2,215 | Down 363 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 56#2,427 | Down 526 rank positions in five years | 1964 | |||
| 72#2,062 | Up 360 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 55#2,459 | Up 172 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 65#2,192 | Down 711 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 125#1,437 | Up 271 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 50#2,615 | Down 687 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 126#1,428 | Up 296 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 75#2,013 | Up 181 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 50#2,614 | Down 53 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 48#2,689 | Up 208 rank positions in five years | 2012 |
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F names climbing fastest
Biggest F names of all time
By total applications since 1880 — a different list from the one above, because it counts every generation, not just this one.
Every other letter
Sources & methodology
Rankings and counts come from official birth card-application data, 1880–2025. Counts are card applications rather than births, and any name given to fewer than 5 babies of one sex in a year is not published — so “—” means genuinely uncommon, never invalid. The “climbing fastest” row ranks by five-year rank movement as a ratio, and a name must be inside the top 1,000 with at least 200 applications in 2025 to qualify — a looser gate than the site-wide trending list uses, because inside a single letter the stricter one leaves some letters empty. Letter shares are measured over listed names only, and the 25-year comparison is a generation rather than five years because letter fashion moves far more slowly than any one name.