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Fisher

#791 in 2025Boys' name

Fisherman

Fisher has been given to 6,646 babies in the U.S. since 1882. In 2025 it ranked #791 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 319 recorded.

Babies named Fisher, 2025

1 in 10,400

Fisher over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fisher: meaning, origin, and history

Fisherman

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fisher means

Fisher means “fisherman”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,581 boys were recorded with the name Fisher between 1882 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 319 in 2025; its best national rank was #764 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #908 in 2020 to #791 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #792 in 2015 to #791 in 2025.

In the United States, 65 girls were recorded with the name Fisher between 2007 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2019; its best national rank was #11,710 in 2019.

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 Fisher?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 10,400
319 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 5,350
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#791
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
7,205 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fisher 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 5005%

Put another way: gather 7,205 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fisher. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fishers were born

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

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,383
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 42.7% of all recorded uses (2,810).

Is Fisher 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
+101
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+117
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.09×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (319)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
7.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#764
2017

Spellings of Fisher

Fisher is not the most common spelling — Asher is, with 82.3% against Fisher's 4.9%.

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 Fisher is used

Across 2016–2025, Fisher was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 1,149 boys, against 1 in 5,682 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 33,333).

387 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 1,149
  2. 2Alabama1 in 1,235
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 1,471
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 2,041
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 2,500
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 2,564
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 2,564
  8. 8Utah1 in 2,632

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Geographically, Fisher is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 93% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Fisher around the world

Where Fisher 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
    2004–2010
    #4,678
    in 2010
  • Canada
    2001–2024
    #1,964
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Fisher

People whose public names include Fisher, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Fisher by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#791
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 117
Best rank ever
#764
2017
Peak year
2025
319 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,581
Count in 2025
319

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,710
2019
Peak year
2019
8 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
65
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Fisher

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

FischerArtherArcherThatcherFishelAutherLutherUsherFletcherMaherAscherGuntherEscherHatcherEstherJasherHeatherCypherAsherCristopherTopherBeecherOatherTaher

Names with a curve like Fisher

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Fisher, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DamariKamrynIshaanMarleyAryanRaydenJaggerCasenYousefZavierSincereYael

Sibling names for Fisher

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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