girls:
114 births since 1904
#5602 (2nd percentile)
boys:
49 births since 1903
#4537 (1st percentile)
overall:
163 births since 1903
#7576 (2nd percentile)
The name Fidelis is the #7,576 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 163 recorded births since 1903. This represents the 2.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,602 (2.0% percentile) for all time with 114 births since 1904. For boys, it ranks #4,537 (1.0% percentile) for all time with 49 births since 1903.
Fidelis first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1903 (1903 for boys and 1904 for girls). Birth data for Fidelis is available in 23 out of the 109 years between 1903 and 2011 (17 years for girls and 9 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Fidelis has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (69.9% of all recorded births). In 2011, 0.0% of babies named Fidelis were girls.
For girls, Fidelis reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #598) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1904, with 24 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1941.
For boys, Fidelis reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #514) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1903, with 39 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2011.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Fidelis".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Fidelis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 80.0% confident that Fidelis is pronounced as fih-DEH-lihs, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is fee-DEH-lihs, at 10.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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