girls:
32.5k births since 1942
#780 (86th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 2004
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
32.5k births since 1942
#1404 (82nd percentile)
The name Fiona is the #1,404 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 32,511 recorded births since 1942. This represents the 81.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 81.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #780 (86.4% percentile) for all time with 32,506 births since 1942. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2004.
Fiona first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1942 (1942 for girls and 2004 for boys). Birth data for Fiona is available in 78 out of the 82 years between 1942 and 2023 (78 years for girls and 1 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 Fiona has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Fiona reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 81.6% percentile (ranked #175) with 890 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 890 births per million (ranked 81.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Fiona ranks #372 for girls (60.8% percentile) with 437 births per million, which is 49.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Fiona reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #847) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Fiona".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Fiona. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 71.4% confident that Fiona is pronounced as fee-OH-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is FEE-oh-nuh, at 21.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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