Ferris — #2440 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Ferris

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,798 babies named Ferris between 1893 and 2024, spanning 132 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ferris currently holds the #2440 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 56 babies received it in a single year. Ferris is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 307 additional births since 1913.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ferris performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 422 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Ferris shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Michigan, which accounts for 117 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Ferris in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ferris 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 2,798 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.