Ferrel — boys' name

What the Data Says About Ferrel

The Social Security Administration has registered 377 babies named Ferrel between 1913 and 1957, spanning 45 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ferrel currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1957. The name reached its historical peak in 1923, when 19 babies received it in a single year. Ferrel is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 22 additional births since 1917.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ferrel performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 117 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Ferrel shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Arkansas, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Ferrel in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ferrel in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 377 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.