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Fidela

Girls' name

Feminine form of Fidel

Fidela has been given to 410 babies in the U.S. since 1906. 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 1922, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Fidela, 2001

1 in 748,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fidela: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Fidel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fidela means

Fidela is a feminine form of Fidel.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Fidela is used in Spanish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /fi.ˈðe.la/ for Fidela.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Fidela → Fidel → Fidel. The family’s meaning is “faithful”, recorded in Spanish with the source elements fidēlis.

Origin, language, and formation

Fidela is used in Cebuano.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Fidel.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 410 girls were recorded with the name Fidela between 1906 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 21 in 1922; its best national rank was #1,916 in 1922.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Fidela?

Fidela had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2001
1 in 748,000
5 of 3,742,181 births
Among girls only
1 in 360,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2001
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
518,778 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fidela 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 2001 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 518,778 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fidela. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fidelas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fidela was born before 1929 — so the typical Fidela is around 96 today.

Median birth year
1929
About 96 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
32.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
82
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 32.4% of all recorded uses (133).

Is Fidela 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1922 (21)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,916
1922

Spellings of Fidela

Fidela is not the most common spelling — Adela is, with 38.4% against Fidela's 1.1%.

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 Fidela is used

Across 1910–2025, Fidela was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 47,234 across all states with data.

22 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 50,000

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

Fidela by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,916
1922
Peak year
1922
21 that year
First recorded
1906
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
410
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Fidela

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

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Sibling names for Fidela

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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