Girl Names Starting With F
In 2025, the most-registered F name for girls was Freya — recorded 1,746 times on Social Security card applications. The deepest entry here sits at rank #4,289, with 33 recorded births.
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| #176 | Freya | 1,746 |
| #254 | Faith | 1,212 |
| #307 | Francesca | 984 |
| #318 | Frances | 960 |
| #330 | Fatima | 931 |
| #391 | Florence | 796 |
| #415 | Finley | 753 |
| #470 | Fiona | 654 |
| #473 | Felicity | 653 |
| #515 | Faye | 579 |
| #551 | Fernanda | 549 |
| #552 | Frankie | 549 |
| #607 | Flora | 483 |
| #772 | Freyja | 352 |
| #779 | Fallon | 349 |
| #1,220 | Fern | 186 |
| #1,275 | Faigy | 176 |
| #1,328 | Farrah | 168 |
| #1,350 | Farah | 164 |
| #1,513 | Finnley | 141 |
| #1,565 | Frida | 135 |
| #1,685 | Francis | 122 |
| #1,738 | Fia | 117 |
| #1,850 | Francine | 108 |
| #1,995 | Fiadh | 96 |
| #2,007 | Fatoumata | 95 |
| #2,070 | Fatimah | 91 |
| #2,084 | Fiorella | 90 |
| #2,263 | Flor | 81 |
| #2,465 | Faiga | 72 |
| #2,968 | Fatou | 56 |
| #2,969 | Francisca | 56 |
| #3,044 | Fabiana | 54 |
| #3,079 | Fabiola | 53 |
| #3,080 | Finlee | 53 |
| #3,116 | Fraidy | 52 |
| #3,177 | Fable | 50 |
| #3,356 | Fannie | 46 |
| #3,485 | Florencia | 44 |
| #3,600 | Fiora | 42 |
| #3,794 | Fae | 39 |
| #3,795 | Fay | 39 |
| #3,855 | Farida | 38 |
| #3,929 | Freja | 37 |
| #3,930 | Frimet | 37 |
| #4,012 | Frieda | 36 |
| #4,102 | Faelynn | 35 |
| #4,103 | Faiza | 35 |
| #4,104 | Faustina | 35 |
| #4,289 | Fallyn | 33 |
Ranks are overall positions among all 2025 girl names, so gaps between rows are real. For a random shortlist, spin F girl names in the generator, or scan the full top 100 girl names.
How common is F as a first letter for girls in 2025?
Among the 2025 top-1,000 girl names, 15 begin with F; summed, their births are 1.0% of the whole list, the 21st-largest share among the 26 initials. Tier by tier, the 2025 overall top 100 claims none of the table's 50 names, the 101–500 band claims 9, the 501–1,000 band claims 6, and 35 rank past #1,000, outside the committed top-1,000 file. The table's last row, Fallyn, still carries 33 births at #4,289; any F girl names below it are outside the committed per-letter depth of 50 and are not shown.
Between #176 (Freya, 1,746 births) and #4,289 (Fallyn, 33), the 50 rows of the 2025 F table hold 14,262 births in all, a top-to-bottom count ratio of 52.9. The middle row, the 25th, is Fiadh at #1,995 with 96 births in 2025. The widest jump between consecutive rows is 503 ranks, from Faiga (#2,465) to Fatou (#2,968); every 2025 girl name at the ranks between them begins with another letter. 7 rows carry exactly the count of the row above them, ordered by the SSA's alphabetical tie rule; the first such pair is Fernanda (#551) and Frankie (#552), at 549 births each. No name in the 2025 F table ranks inside the overall top 100; the nearest is Freya at #176, followed by Faith at #254.
How a rank like #176 is assigned, including the SSA's alphabetical tie-break between equal counts, is explained in Reading ranks and counts.
F girl names across the decade snapshots
Every snapshot year from 1955 to 2015 has at least one F girl name in its top 200; the count was 1 in 1955 and 1 in 2015. The most F names in a single snapshot was 2 in 1965, led by Frances at #163 with 2,262 births; the fewest was 1 in 1955. The lead changed hands among 3 names across those 7 snapshots (Frances, Felicia and Faith), and in 2025 the letter's leader is Freya, at #176, a name that led no snapshot.
| Snapshot | F names in top 200 | Leading F name | Rank | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s (1955) | 1 | Frances | #96 | 4,641 |
| 1960s (1965) | 2 | Frances | #163 | 2,262 |
| 1970s (1975) | 1 | Felicia | #116 | 2,402 |
| 1980s (1985) | 1 | Felicia | #101 | 2,738 |
| 1990s (1995) | 1 | Faith | #173 | 1,747 |
| 2000s (2005) | 1 | Faith | #49 | 5,256 |
| 2010s (2015) | 1 | Faith | #90 | 3,348 |
Measured as a share of top-200 girl births, F runs 0.3% in 1955, 0.3% in 1965, 0.2% in 1975, 0.2% in 1985, 0.2% in 1995, 0.6% in 2005 and 0.4% in 2015 — a high of 0.6% in 2005 and a low of 0.2% in 1995. Cut to the same top-200 depth, the 2025 list holds 1 F name with 0.2% of its births, led by Freya at #176. To read those 7 F shares against the other 25 initials, for girls and for boys, see First-letter trends since 1955, where each snapshot column carries all 26 shares; the full index is on the data guides page.
Faded and new F girl names
Between the snapshots and 2025, 1 F girl name dropped out at the committed depths — each inside some snapshot's top 200, none among the 50 names in the 2025 table. Absent means absent from the 2025 top-50 F list, which stops at Fallyn (#4,289, 33 births); a faded name may still be registered below that cut.
| Name | Best rank (year) | Snapshots in top 200 | Last charted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Felicia | #101 (1985) | 3 of 7 | 1985 |
The 2025 table also carries 48 names that no snapshot top 200 contains: Freya (#176), Francesca (#307), Fatima (#330), Florence (#391), Finley (#415), Fiona (#470), Felicity (#473), Faye (#515), Fernanda (#551), Frankie (#552), Flora (#607) and Freyja (#772), and 36 more. That records only that none of the 48, Freya at #176 included, ranked inside the top 200 in 1955, 1965, 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005, 2015; the snapshot files stop at that rank, so any of them can have been registered below it in any of those years.
The shape of the 2025 F list
On the SSA spelling, 6 of the 50 names in the 2025 F table have four letters or fewer, 34 have five to seven, and 10 have eight or more. Take each length class on its own and the 2025 F list shows 10 long spellings from Francesca at #307 to Faustina at #4,104, 34 medium spellings from Freya at #176 to Fallyn at #4,289, and 6 short spellings from Faye at #515 to Fay at #3,795. By letter count, Fia is the shortest spelling in the 2025 table (3 letters, #1,738) and Francesca the longest (9 letters, #307). "a" is the second letter of 22 of the 50 names in the 2025 F table, "r" of 13, and "i" of 8; 5 second letters are used in total.
Across the sexes, 4 of these 50 spellings also sit on the 2025 boys' F list, where the SSA ranks each sex on its own: Finley (#415 for girls, #333 for boys), Frankie (#552 for girls, #922 for boys), Finnley (#1,513 for girls, #757 for boys) and Francis (#1,685 for girls, #420 for boys).
F girl names: questions the data answers
What is the most popular girl name starting with F in 2025?
Freya. The 2025 SSA data records 1,746 girls named Freya, which places it at #176 among all girl names that year.
How many girl names starting with F are in the 2025 top 1,000?
15. Together they account for 1.0% of the births in the 2025 top 1,000, the 21st-largest share among the 26 initials.
Why does this page list 50 F girl names?
The committed per-letter file holds the 50 most-registered 2025 girl names for each initial, and F fills it: the 50th row is Fallyn at #4,289. Any F names below that cut are outside the committed depth and are not shown.
Which F girl name on this page has the lowest rank?
Fallyn, at #4,289 with 33 births in 2025. Ranks are overall positions among all 2025 girl names, so the span from #176 to #4,289 covers names that start with other letters.
How many F girl names were in the top 200 in 1955 and in 2015?
1 in 1955 (led by Frances at #96) and 1 in 2015 (led by Faith at #90). Those are counts inside one SSA year's top 200; over the 7 snapshots the F count ranges from 1 (1955) to 2 (1965).
Do any of these F girl names also appear on the boys' F list for 2025?
Yes, 4 of the 50: Finley (#415 for girls, #333 for boys), Frankie (#552 for girls, #922 for boys), Finnley (#1,513 for girls, #757 for boys) and Francis (#1,685 for girls, #420 for boys). Those are per-sex ranks, so Finley's #415 for girls (753 births) and #333 for boys (1,017) are two separate SSA positions, not one.
Other letters
Boy names for this letter: boy names starting with F.
Source: every name, rank, and count on this page comes from the U.S. Social Security Administration's national baby-names dataset (2025 data, from Social Security card applications). It is public-domain U.S. government data; names given fewer than 5 times in a year are excluded by the SSA, spelling variants are counted separately, and the data covers U.S. births only. Full caveats on the methodology page.