Ferman
Ferman was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,170 among boys’ names; 1,383 Americans have been recorded with it since 1886 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ferman by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ferman?
#9,170 among boys’ names, 2025
Ferman rose from #12,676 in 2015 to #9,170 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 4.7 per million.
33 babies in 1921, the peak
Ferman peaked in 1921, when 33 boys were given it, #1,272 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,170 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 5 | #12,910 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,958 | 2.9 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,676 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,170 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,863 | 2.6 |
| 2008 | 5 | #13,160 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,113 | 3.4 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,678 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 6 | #9,979 | 3.0 |
Every recorded year (104)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 6 | #9,759 | 3.1 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,596 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,675 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,439 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,128 | 2.6 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,269 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,213 | 3.6 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,570 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,652 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,304 | 4.5 |
| 1988 | 7 | #5,978 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,588 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,879 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,258 | 5.0 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,205 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,666 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,115 | 3.9 |
| 1979 | 15 | #2,934 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,681 | 6.1 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,690 | 6.1 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,143 | 3.8 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,739 | 5.8 |
| 1974 | 10 | #3,399 | 6.4 |
| 1973 | 12 | #2,905 | 7.7 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,127 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,458 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 5 | #4,952 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,144 | 5.0 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,467 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 15 | #2,076 | 8.4 |
| 1965 | 10 | #2,673 | 5.4 |
| 1964 | 14 | #2,244 | 7.0 |
| 1963 | 15 | #2,142 | 7.4 |
| 1962 | 10 | #2,727 | 4.8 |
| 1961 | 13 | #2,354 | 6.1 |
| 1960 | 18 | #1,927 | 8.4 |
| 1959 | 9 | #2,898 | 4.2 |
| 1958 | 19 | #1,861 | 9.0 |
| 1957 | 13 | #2,303 | 6.0 |
| 1956 | 12 | #2,408 | 5.7 |
| 1955 | 20 | #1,749 | 9.7 |
| 1954 | 12 | #2,352 | 5.9 |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,063 | 7.6 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,103 | 7.2 |
| 1951 | 21 | #1,655 | 11.2 |
| 1950 | 15 | #1,963 | 8.4 |
| 1949 | 20 | #1,677 | 11.3 |
| 1948 | 17 | #1,840 | 9.7 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,017 | 8.2 |
| 1946 | 18 | #1,712 | 11.1 |
| 1945 | 16 | #1,722 | 11.9 |
| 1944 | 18 | #1,646 | 13.2 |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,501 | 15.4 |
| 1942 | 14 | #1,979 | 10.1 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,030 | 10.6 |
| 1940 | 17 | #1,703 | 14.7 |
| 1939 | 14 | #1,908 | 12.6 |
| 1938 | 8 | #2,726 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 24 | #1,384 | 22.5 |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,671 | 16.4 |
| 1935 | 19 | #1,612 | 18.2 |
| 1934 | 21 | #1,524 | 20.3 |
| 1933 | 27 | #1,289 | 27.2 |
| 1932 | 20 | #1,605 | 19.2 |
| 1931 | 18 | #1,727 | 17.3 |
| 1930 | 20 | #1,666 | 18.2 |
| 1929 | 29 | #1,323 | 27.0 |
| 1928 | 22 | #1,619 | 19.9 |
| 1927 | 26 | #1,490 | 23.1 |
| 1926 | 23 | #1,580 | 20.7 |
| 1925 | 25 | #1,509 | 22.4 |
| 1924 | 26 | #1,506 | 23.0 |
| 1923 | 27 | #1,443 | 24.6 |
| 1922 | 24 | #1,558 | 22.1 |
| 1921 | 33 | #1,272 | 30.0 |
| 1920 | 31 | #1,305 | 29.1 |
| 1919 | 21 | #1,652 | 21.4 |
| 1918 | 25 | #1,464 | 24.7 |
| 1917 | 28 | #1,306 | 30.3 |
| 1916 | 21 | #1,566 | 23.6 |
| 1915 | 20 | #1,573 | 23.6 |
| 1914 | 20 | #1,358 | 30.5 |
| 1913 | 17 | #1,276 | 33.2 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,563 | 25.6 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,242 | 41.2 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,338 | 36.6 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,273 | 38.9 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,243 | 40.9 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,166 | 45.1 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,142 | 45.3 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,027 | 50.2 |
| 1893 | 6 | #944 | 53.4 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,019 | 49.4 |
| 1886 | 6 | #884 | 54.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ferman a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ferman has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 104 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ferman: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ferman, and how old are they?
An estimated 542 Americans named Ferman and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (39% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 40 and 73. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 720 people named Ferman (5 women and girls, 715 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 614 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% above 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 17,549 babies since 1880, Ferman is the third most given (7.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 62 babies (13%), again the third most given.
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 Ferman
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.
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