Fleet
FLEET
English
Boy
Meaning-based name
- Meaning
- Swift; Quick-moving
- Origin
- English
- Is it in the Bible?
- No — the name Fleet does not appear in the King James Bible. Christian families use it for its meaning, "Swift; Quick-moving", and for the biblical themes that meaning touches, not because anyone in Scripture is called Fleet.
- First appears in
- Does not appear in the King James text
- Peak US usage
- 1880s (0.001% of births), currently steady
- Spiritual meaning
- Fleet runs with the vision — beautiful feet on mountains, good tidings published, the runner who reads and races to deliver God's word.
- Verses on this meaning
- Isaiah 52:7
"How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace."
- Habakkuk 2:2
"Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it."
- Isaiah 52:7