Fleming
Fleming is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 661st, in 1883.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191727 births
- Best rank
- #661in 1883
- Since 1880
- 1,017people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,017 boys have been named Fleming in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 27 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 27 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1930, and the 1910s alone account for 18%. It has spent 12 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Fleming | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 40 | |
| 1890s | 45 | |
| 1900s | 55 | |
| 1910s | 180 | |
| 1920s | 176 | |
| 1930s | 142 | |
| 1940s | 121 | |
| 1950s | 112 | |
| 1960s | 86 | |
| 1970s | 43 | |
| 1980s | 7 | |
| 1990s | 5 | |
| 2000s | 5 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Fleming was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1917 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Fleming
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Juniuspeak 1920
- Rufuspeak 1922
- Sampeak 1918
- Natpeak 1915
- Websterpeak 1915
- Lutherpeak 1922
- Granvillepeak 1918
- Melvillepeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.