Given name & surname
Fedor
“a gift from God”
Fedor is used as a given name and a surname. One Russian interpretation is “a gift from God.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Russian interpretation is “a gift from God.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Russian.
How it developed
From Russian Фёдор, from Old Church Slavonic Ѳеодоръ, from Ancient Greek Θεόδωρος, built from Ancient Greek θεός (“god”) + δῶρον (“gift”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2004. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Fedor through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 155
- 155 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2014
- 21 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #9,171 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −48%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,171 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 21 in 2014. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 796 as a first name in 2020; 2,783 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Fedor’s family of names
In English usage, Fedor has a later derivative in FEDORKO. Fedor has a related form in Feodor. Fedor has a related form in Faydor.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 8
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 16
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Fedor
- Fedor von BockGerman field marshal (1880–1945)
- Fedor EmelianenkoRussian mixed martial arts fighterborn 1976
- Fedor TokarevRussian and Soviet weapons designer (1871-1968)
- Fedor ČernychLithuanian footballerborn 1991
- Fedor OzepRussian-Soviet-American film director and screenwriter1895–1949
- Fedor SamokhinRussian writer of Kyrgyzstan1918–1992
- Fedor KlimovRussian pair skaterborn 1990
- Fedor den HertogDutch road bicycle racer (1946–2011)
- Fedor TyutinRussian ice hockey playerborn 1983
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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