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Fianna

#12,325 in 2025Girls' name

Band of warriors

Fianna has been given to 269 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #12,325 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Fianna, 2025

1 in 474,000

Fianna over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fianna: meaning, origin, and history

Band of warriors

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fianna means

Fianna means “band of warriors”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Fianna is used in Irish (Modern).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈfʲiə.nˠə/ for Fianna.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 269 girls were recorded with the name Fianna between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 24 in 2015; its best national rank was #5,533 in 2015.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,580 in 2020 to #12,325 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,533 in 2015 to #12,325 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 Fianna?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,325
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fianna sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fianna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fiannas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fianna was born before 2014 — so the typical Fianna is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
52.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
269
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Choose a decade

2010s — 52.0% of all recorded uses (140).

Is Fianna 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
−2,540
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+255
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,792
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.29×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
29.2%
Peak was 2015 (24)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,533
2015

Spellings of Fianna

Fianna is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 32.3% against Fianna's <0.01%.

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 Fianna is used

Across 1910–2025, Fianna was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Fianna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Fianna around the world

Where Fianna 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
    2005–2020
    #5,493
    in 2020
  • Northern Ireland
    2000–2025
    #191
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2008–2023
    #856
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2004–2004
    #2,405
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office and Statistics Canada. ONS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Fianna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,325
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 255
Best rank ever
#5,533
2015
Peak year
2015
24 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
269
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Fianna

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

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Sibling names for Fianna

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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