Given name & surname
Fedora
“gift of God”
Fedora is a variant of Feodora. In Russian use, Feodora carries the interpretation “gift of God.”
Original RussianФедора
Meaning & origin
What it means
Fedora is a variant of Feodora. In Russian use, Feodora carries the interpretation “gift of God.”
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Italian usage, Fedora is a feminine form of Фёдор.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1894. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Fedora through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 250
- 0 boys · 250 girls
- Most popular year
- 1916
- 17 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
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- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 17 in 1916. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 334 as a first name in 2020; 476 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.
Fedora’s family of names
In Italian usage, Fedora is a feminine form of Фёдор. Fedora has a related form in Feodora. In English usage, Fedora has a conventional equivalent in the French form Fédora.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Fedora
- Fedora BarbieriItalian mezzo-soprano singer1920–2003
- Fedora PushinaHero of the Soviet Union (1923-1943)
- Fedora AlemánVenezuelan singer (1912–2018)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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