Ferrell
Ferrell was last recorded in 2015, when 6 babies were given it; 2,073 Americans have been recorded with it between 1897 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ferrell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ferrell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,119, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
57 babies in 1935, the peak
Ferrell peaked in 1935, when 57 babies were given it (48 boys, #917 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #11,119 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 6 | #11,163 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,000 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 8 | #9,008 | 4.2 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,253 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,114 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,434 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,236 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 7 | #8,959 | 3.5 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,656 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (99)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 5 | #10,129 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,740 | 2.7 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,472 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,303 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,278 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 9 | #5,905 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,790 | 4.5 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,753 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,462 | 2.9 |
| 1989 | 10 | #4,931 | 5.0 |
| 1988 | 9 | #4,917 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,678 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,589 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,880 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,777 | 6.1 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,637 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,883 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,109 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,636 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 16 | #2,812 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,682 | 6.1 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,458 | 6.7 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,814 | 5.7 |
| 1975 | 13 | #2,955 | 8.3 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,836 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 16 | #2,433 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 13 | #2,722 | 8.0 |
| 1971 | 14 | #2,601 | 7.9 |
| 1970 | 12 | #2,777 | 6.5 |
| 1969 | 18 | #2,007 | 10.1 |
| 1968 | 13 | #2,365 | 7.5 |
| 1967 | 17 | #1,925 | 9.7 |
| 1966 | 25 | #1,548 | 14.0 |
| 1965 | 21 | #1,738 | 11.3 |
| 1964 | 16 | #2,060 | 8.0 |
| 1963 | 17 | #1,990 | 8.4 |
| 1962 | 22 | #1,721 | 10.6 |
| 1961 | 23 | #1,705 | 10.8 |
| 1960 | 25 | #1,632 | 11.7 |
| 1959 | 23 | #1,678 | 10.8 |
| 1958 | 22 | #1,697 | 10.4 |
| 1957 | 18 | #1,908 | 8.3 |
| 1956 | 26 | #1,546 | 12.3 |
| 1955 | 27 | #1,493 | 13.1 |
| 1954 | 26 | #1,506 | 12.8 |
| 1953 | 32 | #1,342 | 16.2 |
| 1952 | 27 | #1,468 | 13.9 |
| 1951 | 38 | #1,177 | 20.2 |
| 1950 | 15 | #1,964 | 8.4 |
| 1949 | 29 | #1,357 | 16.3 |
| 1948 | 23 | #1,529 | 13.1 |
| 1947 | 37 | #1,195 | 20.2 |
| 1946 | 37 | #1,149 | 22.8 |
| 1945 | 23 | #1,391 | 17.1 |
| 1944 | 30 | #1,223 | 22.0 |
| 1943 | 37 | #1,127 | 25.9 |
| 1942 | 46 | #989 | 33.3 |
| 1941 | 37 | #1,073 | 30.1 |
| 1940 | 32 | #1,191 | 27.6 |
| 1939 | 37 | #1,060 | 33.4 |
| 1938 | 29 | #1,229 | 26.1 |
| 1937 | 44 | #947 | 41.3 |
| 1936 | 33 | #1,149 | 31.8 |
| 1935 | 48 | #917 | 46.1 |
| 1934 | 42 | #992 | 40.7 |
| 1933 | 29 | #1,238 | 29.2 |
| 1932 | 33 | #1,183 | 31.6 |
| 1931 | 29 | #1,292 | 27.9 |
| 1930 | 31 | #1,289 | 28.2 |
| 1929 | 28 | #1,349 | 26.0 |
| 1928 | 31 | #1,304 | 28.0 |
| 1927 | 23 | #1,614 | 20.4 |
| 1926 | 28 | #1,389 | 25.2 |
| 1925 | 23 | #1,601 | 20.6 |
| 1924 | 26 | #1,507 | 23.0 |
| 1923 | 26 | #1,472 | 23.7 |
| 1922 | 20 | #1,785 | 18.4 |
| 1921 | 34 | #1,257 | 30.9 |
| 1920 | 30 | #1,337 | 28.2 |
| 1919 | 20 | #1,718 | 20.4 |
| 1918 | 23 | #1,557 | 22.7 |
| 1917 | 17 | #1,843 | 18.4 |
| 1916 | 25 | #1,391 | 28.1 |
| 1915 | 30 | #1,192 | 35.4 |
| 1914 | 23 | #1,241 | 35.1 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,390 | 29.3 |
| 1912 | 9 | #1,791 | 20.9 |
| 1911 | 5 | #1,831 | 22.1 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,121 | 44.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ferrell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,073 Americans recorded as Ferrell, 8% are girls and 92% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ferrell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ferrell, and how old are they?
An estimated 853 Americans named Ferrell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (41% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 47 and 76. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,000 people named Ferrell (160 women and girls, 840 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,026 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
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 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,472 babies since 1880, Ferrell is the most given (84% of them).
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 Ferrell
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 Ferrell and names like it
- Compare Ferrell and FerrelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sFerrell peaked in 1935.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ferrell since 1910.
- The top names of 1935The year the most babies were named Ferrell.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Ferrell alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with FMost given first.