Fiona Girl
How popular is Fiona?
#470 girl name in 2025
654 baby girls were named Fiona in the US in 2025, making it the 470th most popular girl name.
Fiona popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #470 for girls (▼ 65 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 654 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling fast (-56% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #219 in 2015, #294 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2017 (1,683 girls) |
| Highest rank | #180 in 2017 |
| First recorded | 1942 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.5% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Fiona counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Fiona family of names ranked #446 for girls in 2025 (#388 the year before), with 660 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Fiona | 654 | 99% |
| Fionna | 6 | 1% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Fiona is most popular
Babies named Fiona per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- New Hampshire: 2.2 per 1,000 (40 girls)
- Massachusetts: 2.1 per 1,000 (258 girls)
- District of Columbia: 2.1 per 1,000 (25 girls)
- Maine: 2.1 per 1,000 (32 girls)
- Connecticut: 1.6 per 1,000 (91 girls)
Fiona by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 47 | #1,993 |
| 1950s | 91 | #2,754 |
| 1960s | 438 | #1,281 |
| 1970s | 597 | #1,414 |
| 1980s | 955 | #1,060 |
| 1990s | 3,133 | #476 |
| 2000s | 8,778 | #314 |
| 2010s | 14,669 | #180 |
| 2020s | 5,251 | #294 |
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Questions
- Is Fiona a boy or girl name?
- Fiona is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Fiona were girls.
- How popular is the name Fiona?
- 654 baby girls were named Fiona in the US in 2025, making it the 470th most popular girl name.
- When was Fiona most popular?
- Fiona peaked in 2017, when 1,683 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #180 in 2017.
- How many people are named Fiona?
- 33,964 babies have been named Fiona in the US since 1880. We estimate about 33,599 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 14.
- Where is Fiona most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Fiona was most common in New Hampshire, at 2.2 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.