Fenwick

#12,626 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Fenwick has been given to 56 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #12,626 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1923, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Fenwick, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Fenwick?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,626
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fenwick 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fenwick. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fenwicks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fenwick was born before 1926 — so the typical Fenwick is around 99 today.

Median birth year
1926
About 99 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
48.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
32.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
24
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1920s — 48.2% of all recorded uses (27).

Is Fenwick 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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Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
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Rank vs 10 years ago
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Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
71.4%
Peak was 1923 (7)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,981
1913

Spellings of Fenwick

Fenwick is not the most common spelling — Finnick is, with 44.0% against Fenwick's 1.7%.

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.

Fenwick by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,626
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#2,981
1913
Peak year
1923
7 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
56
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Fenwick

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Sibling names for Fenwick

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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