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Fidelia

Fidelia reached its high-water mark in 1916 at number 1,739, and has been recorded 732 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 10,107th. About 290 Fidelias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 46.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 5 10 15 20 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Fidelia

By the numbers

Total US births
732
Estimated living today
290
Median age today
46
Peak year
1916
Best rank
1,739th
Rank in 2025
10,107th
First recorded
1880

How old the living Fidelias are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 5 10 15 20 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 732 babies given the name since 1880, about 290 are alive — 39 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1979 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.

Notable Fidelias

People named Fidelia with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Fidelia is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Fidelia is most concentrated in Texas (7.6×).

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

Names of 1916

The most popular girls’ names the year Fidelia peaked:

All the names of 1916

Fidelia elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Fidelia 100 2,768th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Where Fidelia lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 213 women called Fidelia were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
León Fidelia 7 0.030 1,514
Santa Cruz de Tenerife Fidelia 11 0.020 3,086
Palmas, Las Fidelia 11 0.019 3,514
Asturias Fidelia 9 0.017 2,122
Girona Fidelia 6 0.014 2,861
Barcelona Fidelia 35 0.012 3,355

Listed in 12 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 40 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

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Fidelia against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.