Fiadh
Feminine · “wild”
Fiadh is a wild deer in Irish — fiadh, the word for the animal and for wildness itself — and it went from nowhere to the top of the Irish list in a decade.
How old is the name Fiadh?
Fiadh first appears in US birth records in 2018 — 7 years ago. Fiadh is overwhelmingly a brand-new baby name right now — most Fiadhs are still in diapers. About 400 people named Fiadh are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Fiadh most popular?
Fiadh peaked in 2025, reaching #1990 nationally. Today it ranks #1990, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From fiadh to Fiadh
The story of Fiadh
Fiadh was almost unrecorded as a given name before 2000 and reached the top of the Irish girls' list within twenty years — one of the fastest ascents in that country's records. It belongs to a wider revival of Irish-language names alongside Saoirse, Caoimhe and Aoife. It appears in American records in current use.
Meaning
wild, deer
From the Irish fiadh, 'deer' or 'wild', which in older Irish also meant respect or reverence. The dh is silent in modern pronunciation. The word is ordinary Irish and the meaning undisputed, though the older sense of reverence has largely dropped away.
How the name formed
- fiadh
- Fiadh
Related forms: Fiadh · Fia · Fiadh
Pronouncing Fiadh
FEE-uh
Two syllables, stress on the first. The dh is silent; some speakers say FEE-a with a lighter second syllable.
Nicknames for Fiadh
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 2018
- Most girls named
- 202596 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1990reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +31.5%96 in 2025, from 73
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Fiadh in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Fiadh in Irish — same name
- Fia in English — spelling variant
- Fiadh in Scottish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, New York, Massachusetts. International figures from National Records of Scotland. Sources
Fiadhs among us
people named Fiadh are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 16,742 born in 2025 was named Fiadh
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Tamarah test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Fiadh's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Tamarah climbed just as high around 1962, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Tamarah's path sketches the road Fiadh is walking now.
Fiadh is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Fiadh is headed
Fiadh looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 54% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Fiadh beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Fiadh in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The deer-and-wildness meaning is concrete and genuinely attractive.
- It records one of the fastest name ascents in Irish records.
- The older sense of reverence gives the word an unexpected depth.
- The silent dh will be mispronounced by every English speaker on first sight.
- Fia is the phonetic spelling and is far easier abroad.
- It is very new outside Ireland.
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Frequently asked
- How many Fiadhs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 400 people named Fiadh are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Fiadh in 2025?
- Fiadh ranks #1990 among US girl names in 2025, with 96 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Fiadh?
- About 1 in every 16,742 US girls born in 2025 was named Fiadh — 96 in all.
- Will my child share the name Fiadh with classmates?
- Fiadh will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Fiadh
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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US figures from the Social Security Administration; international figures from national statistics agencies. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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