Boy Names That Start With F

Boy names that start with F in the 2025 data

F is the twenty-first most common first letter for boys born in 2025: 19,663 of them, 1.2% of every boy in the file. It held twenty-first place a decade ago too, and its share has grown from 1.0% to 1.2%.

This list holds the 33 of those names that reached the top 500 as a boy's name at some point since 1880 and are still given to boys rather than girls. The most common today is Felix, #175 with 2,064 boys in 2025. 0 of the 33 are in this year's top 100, and 29 appear in the 2025 file at all — which takes at least five births, the point below which a name is left out. Three other names starting with F are left out — Frances, Florence and Fay. Each reached the top 500 among boys at some point, but fewer than one in ten children given it over the last ten years was a boy. Together they account for 14,691 of those 19,663 boys — the remainder go to names that have never reached the top 500, each given to a handful of children.

The fastest climber among them is Forrest, up from #660 in 2015 to #374 in 2025. Fernando has gone the other way, from #272 to #387. The shortest name here is Fate at 4 letters, the longest Frederick at 9.