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Feather

Feather is a girl's name that peaked in 1977, when it was the 1,801st most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2023. About 540 Feathers are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 32.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Feather

By the numbers

Total US births
554
Estimated living today
540
Median age today
32
Peak year
1977
Best rank
1,801st
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1974

How old the living Feathers are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 554 babies given the name since 1974, about 540 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1993 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Feather is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Feather is most concentrated in California (7.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1977

The most popular girls’ names the year Feather peaked:

All the names of 1977

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.