Fletcher was originally an English surname meaning ‘arrowsmith’. It is influenced by Old French ‘flecher’ for someone who makes arrows and bows.
Fletcher is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Fletcher isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Fletcher ranks 640. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Fletcher. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Fletcher.
Fletcher was originally an English surname meaning ‘arrowsmith’. It is influenced by Old French ‘flecher’ for someone who makes arrows and bows.
Fletcher was a quite... common given name at the end of the 19th century. Since 2010, it is on the rise again.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Fletcher annualy. This means that there have been boys named Fletcher who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Fletcher have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Fletcher even more than any other time: in 1892, it holds its present record at rank #252 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Fletcher was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Fletcher has never been ranked higher than #252. In 2021, he rivaled the 604 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 428 boys named Fletcher were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1991, when possibly the parents of the now very young Fletcher were born, there have been 75 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter F is quite rare as a first letter for boys' names: only 1.5% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an F. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With eight letters, the name Fletcher is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 1.5% of all boys' names begin with an F, this initial letter is significantly less common than the other letters on average. However, individual boys' names with F are really popular, the most common currently being Frank.
If your name is Fletcher and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Fletcher, you can simply say:
Fox
Lion
Elephant
Tiger
Cat
Hat
Elephant
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Fletcher
Fletcher
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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R
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Fletcher sounds like this:
