Fletcher Boy Name

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The name Fletcher is of English origin, and means one who makes arrows. The table below indicates the number of times the name Fletcher has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Fletcher**
Use of the Name Fletcher for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
8,186	1,995	673	486	486	331	171

The table below indicates the number of times the name Fletcher has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Fletcher**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	345	25
1881	271	34
1882	393	21
1883	319	27
1884	337	27
1885	359	24
1886	276	38
1887	359	21
1888	297	36
1889	307	32
1890	372	23
1891	320	28
1892	266	45
1893	309	32
1894	352	27
1895	291	38
1896	343	31
1897	308	36
1898	337	33
1899	301	34
1900	285	53
1901	311	33
1902	323	37
1903	334	33
1904	340	35
1905	348	35
1906	402	29
1907	322	44
1908	368	39
1909	405	37
1910	348	53
1911	400	51
1912	412	89
1913	478	83
1914	470	106
1915	468	139
1916	468	149
1917	458	153
1918	465	162
1919	503	140
1920	556	123
1921	475	166
1922	511	146
1923	523	136
1924	493	158
1925	518	139
1926	491	151
1927	519	137
1928	544	125
1929	522	126
1930	537	124
1931	596	97
1932	563	110
1933	492	129
1934	545	118
1935	572	103
1936	592	96
1937	567	104
1938	571	105
1939	566	102
1940	615	94
1941	616	95
1942	594	111
1943	631	101
1944	593	106
1945	635	90
1946	624	105
1947	699	99
1948	582	131
1949	614	122
1950	633	119
1951	654	115
1952	696	101
1953	712	100
1954	736	95
1955	709	106
1956	859	76
1957	772	95
1958	813	85
1959	904	72
1960	866	77
1961	805	90
1962	893	73
1963	869	75
1964	816	85
1965	829	79
1966	879	68
1967	844	72
1968	921	62
1969	958	64
1970	918	76
1971	991	67
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985	960	91
1986	931	96
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002	998	155
2003	984	160
2004	965	171
Totals:		8,186		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Fletcher as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Fletcher appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 97 times during the last 125 years.

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