Fowler

A boys’ name of Old English origin, meaning bird catcher, one who hunts fowl.

Babies a year
6
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Fowler by the numbers

Fowler was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 16 babies in 1922, making it a 1920s name.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Fowler. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Fosterone who keeps or tends forest238 in the US (2017)
  • Fullerone who fulls cloth13 in the US (2017)
  • Foxleyfox meadow4 in England and Wales (2025)

Other names that mean a bird

Like Fowler, each of these has a bird in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.

  • Gavinwhite hawk4,134 in the US (2017)
  • Jonahdove2,523 in the US (2017)
  • Remingtonraven settlement; from the raven farm2,251 in the US (2017)
  • Phoenixmythical bird that rises from ashes2,184 in the US (2017)
  • Corbinraven; from corvus1,434 in the US (2017)
  • Jaya form of names beginning with J; also the bird856 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Fowler

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