Fishel
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- FISH-el
- Origin
- Germanic
- US rank, 2025
- #4,395 for boys
Fishel is a boys' name of Germanic origin, meaning “little fish”. In 2025 it ranked 4,395th for boys in the US (23 babies).
What does Fishel mean?
Germanic: Yiddish pet name from fish
“little fish”
Traditionally paired with Ephraim, whose blessing in Genesis is linked in Jewish tradition with fish multiplying.
Is Fishel a girl's or a boy's name?
Fishel is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 23 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Fishel in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,395th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 23 about 1 in 74,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 15% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 23 boys in the US were named Fishel, making it the 4,395th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,292nd. It first appears in the records in 1959.
2025 had the most boys named Fishel of any year since it first appeared, in 1959.
Half of all the boys named Fishel in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Fishel in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #4,395 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,464 |
| 2023 | 18 | #5,250 |
| 2022 | 12 | #6,822 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,105 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,292 |
| 2019 | 14 | #6,099 |
| 2018 | 20 | #4,735 |
| 2017 | 15 | #5,784 |
| 2016 | 15 | #5,785 |
| 2015 | 10 | #7,486 |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,102 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,532 |
| 2012 | 13 | #6,300 |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,280 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 12 | #6,798 |
| 2008 | 5 | #12,546 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,090 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,108 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,348 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,385 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,529 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 6 | #8,697 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,308 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,129 |
| 1995 | 5 | #8,861 |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 6 | #7,631 |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,222 |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 0 | – |
| 1971 | 0 | – |
| 1970 | 0 | – |
| 1969 | 0 | – |
| 1968 | 0 | – |
| 1967 | 0 | – |
| 1966 | 0 | – |
| 1965 | 0 | – |
| 1964 | 0 | – |
| 1963 | 0 | – |
| 1962 | 0 | – |
| 1961 | 0 | – |
| 1960 | 0 | – |
| 1959 | 5 | #3,986 |
Names like Fishel
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Musa, Zahir, Hamza, Zamir, Zayd, Abdiel, Jamir, Finnegan, Salem, Zayan, Amir, Nasir
More Germanic names
Amelia, Liam, Henry, Charlotte, William, Archie, Charlie, Emma, Freddie, Ella, Harry, Millie, Albie, Matilda, Louie, Miles
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Fishel: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/fishel, updated 20 October 2026.