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Fifi

Girls' name

Diminutive of Joséphine

Fifi has been given to 141 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 1923, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Fifi, 1974

1 in 338,000

Fifi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fifi: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Joséphine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fifi means

Fifi is a diminutive of Joséphine.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Fifi is used in French.

Another recorded pronunciation is /fi.fi/ for Fifi.

Origin, language, and formation

Fifi is used in English and French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Joséphine, Sophie and Philippe.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Fifi is pronounced /ˈfifi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 141 girls were recorded with the name Fifi between 1916 and 1974. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1923; its best national rank was #3,123 in 1926.

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 Fifi?

Fifi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1974, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1974
1 in 338,000
9 of 3,039,803 births
Among girls only
1 in 163,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1974
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
234,116 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fifi 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 1974 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 234,116 children born in 1974 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fifi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fifis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fifi was born before 1928 — so the typical Fifi is around 97 today.

Median birth year
1928
About 97 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
36.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
36.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
52
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1920s — 36.2% of all recorded uses (51).

Is Fifi 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 1923 (10)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,123
1926

Spellings of Fifi

Fifi is not the most common spelling — Niki is, with 16.7% against Fifi's 0.33%.

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.

Fifi around the world

Where Fifi 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
    1996–2022
    #5,670
    in 2022
  • France
    1925–1973
    #2,446
    in 1973
  • South Australia
    2000–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Fifi 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
#3,123
1926
Peak year
1923
10 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
1974
All-time count
141
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Fifi

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

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Sibling names for Fifi

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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