girls:
194 births since 1913
#5522 (3rd percentile)
boys:
16.3k births since 1880
#909 (80th percentile)
overall:
16.5k births since 1880
#2012 (74th percentile)
The name Fletcher is the #2,012 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 16,533 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 74.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 74.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #909 (80.2% percentile) for all time with 16,339 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,522 (3.4% percentile) for all time with 194 births since 1913.
Fletcher has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1913 for girls).
The name Fletcher has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Fletcher reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 41.9% percentile (ranked #530) with 238 births per million. The name was most common in 1892, with 342 births per million (ranked 17.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1992, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Fletcher ranks #530 for boys (41.9% percentile) with 238 births per million, which is 69.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Fletcher reached its peak popularity in 1913, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #474) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 17 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Fletcher ranks #942 for girls (0.5% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 34.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Fletcher".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Fletcher. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Fletcher is pronounced as FLEH-cher, which has 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like F L EH1 CH ER0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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