Fielding
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Fielding has been given to 602 babies in the U.S. since 1884. 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 2022, with 16 recorded.
Babies named Fielding, 2024
1 in 334,000
Fielding over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Fielding?
Fielding had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 334,000
- 10 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 172,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 231,706 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Fielding sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 231,706 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fielding. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Fieldings were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Fielding was born before 1967 — so the typical Fielding is around 58 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 18.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 31.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 361
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 18.4% of all recorded uses (111).
Is Fielding 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
- —
- 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 2022 (16)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.6% average annual change
Fielding by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Fielding
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Fielding
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.