Ferdie
Ferdie was last recorded in 1963, when 5 babies were given it; 233 Americans have been recorded with it between 1894 and 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ferdie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ferdie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ferdie is “a diminutive of the male given name Ferdinand.”
From Ferdinand + -ie, with the root itself from Spanish Ferdinando.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ferdie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #4,246, in 1963; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 1921, the peak
Ferdie peaked in 1921, when 14 boys were given it, #2,291 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 5 | #4,246 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 5 | #3,995 | 2.5 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,861 | 2.8 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,853 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 6 | #3,479 | 3.3 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,687 | 3.1 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,332 | 4.3 |
| 1940 | 7 | #2,958 | 6.0 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,696 | 4.5 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,503 | 8.7 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1935 | 8 | #2,784 | 7.7 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,417 | 5.8 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,604 | 9.1 |
| 1932 | 9 | #2,705 | 8.6 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,540 | 9.6 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,657 | 9.3 |
| 1928 | 9 | #2,912 | 8.1 |
| 1926 | 10 | #2,786 | 9.0 |
| 1924 | 10 | #2,881 | 8.8 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,259 | 7.3 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,636 | 6.4 |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,291 | 12.7 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,605 | 6.6 |
| 1919 | 10 | #2,748 | 10.2 |
| 1918 | 9 | #2,956 | 8.9 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,191 | 5.4 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,009 | 9.0 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,552 | 7.1 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,329 | 13.7 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,217 | 39.9 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,138 | 43.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ferdie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ferdie has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ferdie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ferdie, and how old are they?
An estimated 29 Americans named Ferdie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 189 people named Ferdie (14 women and girls, 175 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 46 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 85,105 babies since 1880, Ferdie is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 130 babies recorded by SSA was a Ferdie (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ferdie
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ferdie and names like it
- Compare Ferdie and FreddieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sFerdie peaked in 1921.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ferdie since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Ferdie.
- Names starting with FMost given first.