Girl Names That Start With F

Girl names that start with F in the 2025 data

F is the twenty-second most common first letter for girls born in 2025: 15,903 of them, 1.0% of every girl in the file. It has slipped from twenty-first place a decade ago, and its share has barely moved: 1.0% then, 1.0% now.

This list holds the 33 of those names that reached the top 500 as a girl's name at some point since 1880 and are still given to girls rather than boys. The most common today is Freya, #176 with 1,746 girls in 2025. 0 of the 33 are in this year's top 100, and 27 appear in the 2025 file at all — which takes at least five births, the point below which a name is left out. Two other names starting with F are left out — Frank and Freddie. Each reached the top 500 among girls at some point, but fewer than one in ten children given it over the last ten years was a girl. Together they account for 12,065 of those 15,903 girls — 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 Florence, up from #1,175 in 2015 to #391 in 2025. Fiona has gone the other way, from #219 to #470. The shortest name here is Fay at 3 letters, the longest Francisca at 9.