girls:
19 births since 2016
#5697 (0th percentile)
boys:
2k births since 1993
#2795 (39th percentile)
overall:
2k births since 1993
#5744 (26th percentile)
The name Fischer is the #5,744 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,033 recorded births since 1993. This represents the 25.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 25.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,795 (39.0% percentile) for all time with 2,014 births since 1993. For girls, it ranks #5,697 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 19 births since 2016.
Fischer first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1993 (1993 for boys and 2016 for girls).
The name Fischer has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Fischer reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 11.0% percentile (ranked #806) with 51 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 51 births per million (ranked 11.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Fischer ranks #836 for boys (8.2% percentile) with 44 births per million, which is 85.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Fischer reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #954) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Fischer".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Fischer. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Fischer is pronounced as FIH-sher, which has 2 syllables.
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