Fidel

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Fidel

Say it: fee-DEL

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Meaning

From Latin fidelis 'faithful'.

Certainscholars agree on this meaning.

Its wave through time

Most used in the 2000s

In the United States

10,913 babies given this name since 1892
At its height in 2001, about 1 in 10,000 boys
81 babies in 2020

Through the ages

Used by

Caribbean Spanish Mexican

The family of the name

Italian	Fedele

Famous bearers

Fidel Castro, Cuban leader

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Where this comes from

Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.

Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.