Fidel
Fidel is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 81 births. Its best rank was 632nd, in 1959.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 810.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2001195 births
- Best rank
- #632in 1959
- Since 1892
- 11,235people given the name
The story in the numbers
11,235 boys have been named Fidel in the United States since 1892, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2001, with 195 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1983, and the 1990s alone account for 15%. It has spent 91 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Fidel | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 32 | |
| 1900s | 37 | |
| 1910s | 294 | |
| 1920s | 674 | |
| 1930s | 622 | |
| 1940s | 737 | |
| 1950s | 873 | |
| 1960s | 864 | |
| 1970s | 1,032 | |
| 1980s | 1,313 | |
| 1990s | 1,715 | |
| 2000s | 1,673 | |
| 2010s | 967 | |
| 2020s | 402 |
In 2001, its biggest year
Fidel was the 833rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2001 were Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 2001.
Names that rose and fell with Fidel
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Federicopeak 1976
- Reyespeak 1999
- Demetriopeak 1999
- Ignaciopeak 2006
- Genaropeak 2000
- Salvadorpeak 1992
- Lauropeak 2000
- Willypeak 1993
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.