Baby Names That Start With F
Girls' and boys' names beginning with F, ranked by how many babies actually got them, plus how the letter itself has risen or fallen over the last century.
- Girls with F, 2025
- 0.99%
- vs 0.76% in 2000
- Girls' F names in use
- 202
- 899 recorded since 1880
- Girls' peak
- 1898
- at 4.0% of names
- Boys with F, 2025
- 1.2%
- vs 0.84% in 2000
- Boys' F names in use
- 200
- 642 recorded since 1880
- Boys' peak
- 1880
- at 5.9% of names
How F has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name starting with F, year by year. Plotted as a share rather than a count — raw counts track how many babies were born, so every letter would appear to peak in 1957.
| Save name | Name & meaning | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 584#514 | Down 86 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 960#318 | Up 100 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 80#1,936 | Down 134 rank positions in five years | 1924 | |||
| 796#391 | Up 372 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 769#420 | Up 62 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 728#435 | Up 49 rank positions in five years | 1951 | |||
| 63#2,237 | Down 206 rank positions in five years | 1926 | |||
| 1,212#254 | Down 120 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 1,069#322 | Down 26 rank positions in five years | 1993 | |||
| 909#359 | Up 55 rank positions in five years | 1933 | |||
| 819#387 | Down 45 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 46#3,355 | Down 821 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 2,064#175 | Up 50 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 116#1,510 | Up 242 rank positions in five years | 1947 | |||
| 579#515 | Up 173 rank positions in five years | 1943 | |||
| 483#607 | Up 318 rank positions in five years | 1920 | |||
| 94#1,736 | Down 308 rank positions in five years | 1953 | |||
| 850#374 | Up 88 rank positions in five years | 1994 | |||
| 655#468 | Down 45 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 256#922 | Up 51 rank positions in five years | 1959 | |||
| 931#330 | Up 12 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 186#1,220 | Up 345 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 549#552 | Up 36 rank positions in five years | 1943 | |||
| 108#1,850 | Up 817 rank positions in five years | 1951 | |||
| 984#307 | Up 148 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,702#206 | Down 27 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 654#470 | Down 175 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 39#3,794 | Up 405 rank positions in five years | 1926 | |||
| 244#955 | Down 83 rank positions in five years | 2001 | |||
| 122#1,685 | Up 606 rank positions in five years | 1919 | |||
| 127#1,422 | Down 155 rank positions in five years | 1947 | |||
| 36#4,011 | Up 279 rank positions in five years | 1916 | |||
| 753#415 | Down 214 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 549#551 | Up 20 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 1,746#176 | Up 2 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 1,017#333 | Down 28 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 653#473 | Down 89 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 344#750 | Up 48 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 549#547 | Up 107 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 264#901 | Up 61 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 569#526 | Down 117 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 56#2,969 | Up 447 rank positions in five years | 1928 | |||
| 168#1,328 | Down 116 rank positions in five years | 1977 | |||
| 349#779 | Up 86 rank positions in five years | 1982 | |||
| 84#1,875 | Down 38 rank positions in five years | 2001 | |||
| 642#474 | Down 15 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 53#3,079 | Down 92 rank positions in five years | 1995 | |||
| 348#747 | Up 198 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 73#2,043 | Up 105 rank positions in five years | 1976 | |||
| 135#1,565 | Down 675 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 145#1,329 | Up 9 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 81#2,263 | Down 142 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 47#2,727 | Down 95 rank positions in five years | 1956 | |||
| 299#828 | Down 169 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 319#791 | Up 117 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 164#1,350 | Up 76 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 340#757 | Down 146 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 71#2,083 | Down 313 rank positions in five years | 2005 | |||
| 129#1,411 | Down 491 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 352#772 | Up 179 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 91#2,070 | Down 452 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 54#2,495 | Up 2,255 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 176#1,275 | Up 150 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 150#1,299 | Up 177 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 119#1,487 | Down 69 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 50#2,613 | Down 137 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 67#2,153 | Down 99 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 39#3,793 | Up 792 rank positions in five years | 1916 | |||
| 61#2,293 | Down 343 rank positions in five years | 1959 | |||
| 95#2,007 | Up 171 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 141#1,513 | Down 222 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 64#2,215 | Down 363 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 56#2,427 | Down 526 rank positions in five years | 1964 | |||
| 54#3,044 | Up 24 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 72#2,062 | Up 360 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 35#4,103 | Down 153 rank positions in five years | 1924 | |||
| 90#2,084 | Up 1,270 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 55#2,459 | Up 172 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 44#3,484 | Up 1,726 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 65#2,192 | Down 711 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 33#4,288 | Down 1,457 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 72#2,465 | Up 644 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 125#1,437 | Up 271 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 50#2,615 | Down 687 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 56#2,968 | Up 832 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 52#3,116 | Up 587 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 126#1,428 | Up 296 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 75#2,013 | Up 181 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 50#2,614 | Down 53 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 53#3,080 | Down 725 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 48#2,689 | Up 208 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 35#4,102 | Down 400 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 38#3,854 | Up 732 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 37#3,929 | Up 456 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 117#1,738 | Up 2,301 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 37#3,928 | Up 871 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 96#1,995 | Up 1,520 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 42#3,599 | Up 4,083 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 50#3,177 | Up 3,244 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 35#4,101 | Up 2,050 rank positions in five years | 2025 |
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F names climbing fastest
Biggest F names of all time
By total applications since 1880 — a different list from the one above, because it counts every generation, not just this one.
F names climbing fastest
Biggest F names of all time
By total applications since 1880 — a different list from the one above, because it counts every generation, not just this one.
Every other letter
Sources & methodology
Rankings and counts come from official birth card-application data, 1880–2025. Counts are card applications rather than births, and any name given to fewer than 5 babies of one sex in a year is not published — so “—” means genuinely uncommon, never invalid. The “climbing fastest” row ranks by five-year rank movement as a ratio, and a name must be inside the top 1,000 with at least 200 applications in 2025 to qualify — a looser gate than the site-wide trending list uses, because inside a single letter the stricter one leaves some letters empty. Letter shares are measured over listed names only, and the 25-year comparison is a generation rather than five years because letter fashion moves far more slowly than any one name.