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Fenton

#6,919 in 2025Boys' name

Marsh town

Fenton has been given to 2,046 babies in the U.S. since 1883. In 2025 it ranked #6,919 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1922, with 40 recorded.

Babies named Fenton, 2025

1 in 276,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fenton: meaning, origin, and history

Marsh town

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fenton means

Fenton means “marsh town”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,046 boys were recorded with the name Fenton between 1883 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 40 in 1922; its best national rank was #758 in 1895.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,318 in 2020 to #6,919 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,042 in 2015 to #6,919 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Fenton?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,919
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fenton 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 2025 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fenton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fentons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fenton was born before 1949 — so the typical Fenton is around 76 today.

Median birth year
1949
About 76 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
15.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
22.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,017
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Choose a decade

1920s — 15.5% of all recorded uses (317).

Is Fenton 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
+491
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,601
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,877
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.32×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
30.0%
Peak was 1922 (40)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#758
1895

Spellings of Fenton

Fenton is not the most common spelling — Weston is, with 18.8% against Fenton's 0.51%.

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 Fenton is used

Across 1910–2025, Fenton was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 547,982 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in —
  2. 2North Carolina1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in —
  5. 5Virginia1 in —
  6. 6Washington1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Fenton has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Fenton around the world

Where Fenton 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
    1996–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1982–1982
    #330
    in 1982
  • Canada
    2007–2014
    #1,948
    in 2014
  • South Australia
    1951–2006
    #657
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Fenton

People whose public names include Fenton, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Fenton by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,919
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,601
Best rank ever
#758
1895
Peak year
1922
40 that year
First recorded
1883
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,046
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Fenton

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

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Names with a curve like Fenton

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Fenton, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

TillmanOlanAcieFerrisTalmageRexfordSandersGarnerHurleyWellingtonCrawfordGardner

Sibling names for Fenton

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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