Feather
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Feather has been given to 554 babies in the U.S. since 1974. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1977, with 56 recorded.
Babies named Feather, 2023
1 in 552,000
Feather over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Feather?
Feather had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 552,000
- 6 of 3,314,783 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 267,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,940 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Feather sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Feather. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Feathers were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Feather was born before 1993 — so the typical Feather is around 32 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 26.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 35.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 554
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 26.2% of all recorded uses (145).
Is Feather rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1977 (56)
- Years since peak
- 48
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 55.0% average annual change
Spellings of Feather
Feather is not the most common spelling — Heather is, with 65.6% against Feather's 0.07%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Feather is used
Across 1910–2025, Feather was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 512,565 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3Oklahoma1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Feather has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Feather around the world
Where Feather ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- Canada2013–2013#2,840in 2013
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Feather by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Feather
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Feather
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.