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Feivel

Boys' name

Possibly or, through פֿײַוול

Feivel has been given to 17 babies in the U.S. since 2019. 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 2019, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Feivel, 2023

1 in 663,000

Feivel over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Feivel: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly or, through פֿײַוול

Yiddish

What Feivel means

Feivel belongs to the name family reached through Feivel → פֿײַוול. Its meaning is “or”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Yiddish פֿײַוול (fayvl), of uncertain meaning.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Feivel (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Feivel is used in English. Its origins include Yiddish.

Feivel comes through Yiddish פֿײַוול.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Fievel and פֿײַוול.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 17 boys were recorded with the name Feivel between 2019 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2019; its best national rank was #10,077 in 2019.

How common is Feivel?

Feivel 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 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Feivel sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Feivel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Feivels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Feivel was born before 2020 — so the typical Feivel is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
58.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
17
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 58.8% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Feivel 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
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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 2019 (7)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,077
2019

Spellings of Feivel

Feivel is not the most common spelling — Fidel is, with 99.9% against Feivel's 0.15%.

  • Fidel99.9%11,321
  • Feivel0.15%17

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.

Feivel around the world

Where Feivel 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.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2012
    #4,805
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Feivel by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,077
2019
Peak year
2019
7 that year
First recorded
2019
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
17
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Feivel

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Feivel

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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