# Fisher (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/fisher/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 6,646 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 6,581 / 65 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 6, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 6 | 16,142 |
| 2012 | 6 | 15,590 |
| 2013 | 5 | 17,438 |
| 2016 | 5 | 17,120 |
| 2017 | 7 | 13,180 |
| 2018 | 6 | 14,396 |
| 2019 | 8 | 11,715 |
| 2020 | 7 | 12,587 |
| 2022 | 5 | 16,124 |
| 2023 | 5 | 15,975 |
| 2024 | 5 | 16,086 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 249 | 856 |
| 2012 | 262 | 834 |
| 2013 | 247 | 863 |
| 2014 | 304 | 770 |
| 2015 | 294 | 792 |
| 2016 | 310 | 774 |
| 2017 | 307 | 764 |
| 2018 | 282 | 801 |
| 2019 | 300 | 778 |
| 2020 | 246 | 908 |
| 2021 | 265 | 874 |
| 2022 | 267 | 885 |
| 2023 | 268 | 874 |
| 2024 | 265 | 892 |
| 2025 | 319 | 791 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 3 | 3,651 |
| 2010 | 3 | 4,678 |

## People named Fisher

- Fisher Stevens, American actor, director, producer and writer (born 1963)
- Fisher Ames, American politician (1758–1808)
- John F. Burns, British journalist

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.