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Fischer

About 2,177 American babies have been named Fischer since 1993, most of them around 2015. In 2025 it ranked 2,207th. About 2,200 Fischers are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 12.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Fischer boys named Fischer

By the numbers

Total US births
2,177
Estimated living today
2,200
Median age today
12
Peak year
2015
Best rank
1,555th
Rank in 2025
2,207th
First recorded
1993
Girls / boys
19 / 2,158

How old the living Fischers are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,177 babies given the name since 1993, about 2,200 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,600 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2013 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 Fischers

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

Where Fischer is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Fischer is most concentrated in Florida (5.5×), Utah (4.7×), Michigan (3.2×), Texas (3.0×).

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

Names of 2015

The most popular boys’ names the year Fischer peaked:

All the names of 2015

Related names

Fischer 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.