Fletcher
Fletcher reached its high-water mark in 2025 at number 545, and has been recorded 17,644 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 545th. About 12,000 Fletchers are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Fletcher boys named Fletcher
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 17,644
- Estimated living today
- 12,000
- Median age today
- 14
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 545th
- Rank in 2025
- 545th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 225 / 17,419
How old the living Fletchers are
born that year still alive today
Of the 17,644 babies given the name since 1880, about 12,000 are alive — 67 in every hundred. Roughly 6,700 of them are children and 1,400 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 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 the name comes from
Origin a surname
English occupational surname from the noun fletcher (“arrow-maker”). Sometimes confused with Flesher.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Fletchers
- Fletcher Christian (1764–1793)HMS Bounty mutineer
- Fletcher Henderson (1897–1952)American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer
- Henry Fletcher Hance (1827–1886)British diplomat and botanist
People named Fletcher with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Fletcher is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Fletcher is most concentrated in Alabama (3.9×), North Carolina (3.5×), Georgia (2.9×), Arkansas (2.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular boys’ names the year Fletcher peaked:
Fletcher elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Fletcher | 3,973 | 225th |
| New Zealand boys | Fletcher | 500 | 71st |
| Scotland boys | Fletcher | 230 | 252nd |
| Ireland boys | Fletcher | 49 | 435th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Fletcher | 34 | 311th |
| France boys | Fletcher | 25 | 5,947th |
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.
Related names
Fletcher 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.