Girl Names That Start With F
Girls' 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 girls, 2025
- 0.99%
- vs 0.76% in 2000
- Names in use
- 202
- 899 recorded since 1880
- Letter peaked
- 1898
- at 4.0% of names
- Rank among 26 letters
- #22
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 960#318 | Up 100 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 796#391 | Up 372 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 1,212#254 | Down 120 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 46#3,355 | Down 821 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 579#515 | Up 173 rank positions in five years | 1943 | |||
| 483#607 | Up 318 rank positions in five years | 1920 | |||
| 931#330 | Up 12 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 186#1,220 | Up 345 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 549#552 | Up 36 rank positions in five years | 1943 | |||
| 108#1,850 | Up 817 rank positions in five years | 1951 | |||
| 984#307 | Up 148 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 654#470 | Down 175 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 39#3,794 | Up 405 rank positions in five years | 1926 | |||
| 122#1,685 | Up 606 rank positions in five years | 1919 | |||
| 36#4,011 | Up 279 rank positions in five years | 1916 | |||
| 753#415 | Down 214 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 549#551 | Up 20 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 1,746#176 | Up 2 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 653#473 | Down 89 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 56#2,969 | Up 447 rank positions in five years | 1928 | |||
| 168#1,328 | Down 116 rank positions in five years | 1977 | |||
| 349#779 | Up 86 rank positions in five years | 1982 | |||
| 53#3,079 | Down 92 rank positions in five years | 1995 | |||
| 135#1,565 | Down 675 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 81#2,263 | Down 142 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 164#1,350 | Up 76 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 352#772 | Up 179 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 91#2,070 | Down 452 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 176#1,275 | Up 150 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 39#3,793 | Up 792 rank positions in five years | 1916 | |||
| 95#2,007 | Up 171 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 141#1,513 | Down 222 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 54#3,044 | Up 24 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 35#4,103 | Down 153 rank positions in five years | 1924 | |||
| 90#2,084 | Up 1,270 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 44#3,484 | Up 1,726 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 33#4,288 | Down 1,457 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 72#2,465 | Up 644 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 56#2,968 | Up 832 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 52#3,116 | Up 587 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 53#3,080 | Down 725 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 35#4,102 | Down 400 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 38#3,854 | Up 732 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 37#3,929 | Up 456 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 117#1,738 | Up 2,301 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 37#3,928 | Up 871 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 96#1,995 | Up 1,520 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 42#3,599 | Up 4,083 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 50#3,177 | Up 3,244 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 35#4,101 | Up 2,050 rank positions in five years | 2025 |
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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.