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Ford

Boys’ name Recorded 1880-2025

Ford was given to 642 boys in 2025, #474 among boys’ names; 11,026 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).

An estimated 8,420 Americans named Ford and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (76% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 15.

Babies named Ford each year, first recorded in 1880
Ford, 1880-2025; highest in 2021.200400600800188019001920194019601980200020252021 peak: 707
Ford, 1880-2025; highest in 2021.200400600800188019001920194019601980200020252021 peak: 707
Ford, 1880-2025; highest in 2021.20040060080018801905193019551980200520252021 peak: 707
Ford, 1880-2025; highest in 2021.20040060080018801930198020252021 peak: 707

Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).

Ford or JasperNames of the 2020sNames in California

Births of Ford by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.

What does Ford mean?

Wiktionary, English section

Ford is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”

/fɔɹd/

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary, entry Ford (English), CC BY‑SA 4.0. Quoted from the entry; text after a cross-reference to another sense is left out.

Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).

How popular is Ford?

#474 among boys’ names, 2025

Ford rose from #741 in 2015 to #474 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.17 to 0.38 per 1,000.

707 babies in 2021, the peak

Ford peaked in 2021, when 707 boys were given it, #439 among boys’ names. The 642 births of 2025 are 91% of that peak.

Ford by year
YearBirthsRankPer 1,000 boys
2025642#4740.38
2024507#5700.29
2023564#5230.33
2022649#4770.37
2021707#4390.40
2020647#4590.37
2019497#5620.28
2018417#6350.23
2017344#7110.19
2016342#7140.18
Every recorded year (145)
YearBirthsRankPer 1,000 boys
2015327#7410.17
2014245#8850.13
2013183#1,0480.10
2012171#1,0900.09
2011139#1,2450.07
2010101#1,5660.05
200994#1,6720.05
200887#1,7440.04
200766#2,0750.03
200688#1,6310.04
200562#2,0110.03
200437#2,7990.02
200354#2,0810.03
200245#2,3080.02
200141#2,3920.02
200052#1,9710.03
199936#2,4790.02
199835#2,4700.02
199749#1,8940.03
199636#2,2600.02
199536#2,2210.02
199438#2,1340.02
199327#2,6500.01
199228#2,5560.01
199126#2,6220.01
199019#3,2060.01
198922#2,8120.01
198825#2,3890.01
198720#2,6580.01
198616#3,0420.01
198517#2,8680.01
198417#2,7340.01
198316#2,8290.01
198210#4,0350.01
198114#3,0910.01
198012#3,4800.01
197923#2,1860.01
197811#3,4770.01
19779#3,9400.01
197615#2,7440.01
197515#2,6740.01
19746#4,839under 0.01
197319#2,1540.01
197211#3,0270.01
197120#2,0770.01
197027#1,6680.01
196926#1,6160.01
196822#1,7080.01
196722#1,6760.01
196625#1,5500.01
196528#1,4630.02
196416#2,0610.01
196330#1,4360.01
196230#1,4350.01
196132#1,4140.02
196036#1,3240.02
195948#1,1230.02
195837#1,2670.02
195742#1,2030.02
195642#1,1770.02
195526#1,5140.01
195449#1,0700.02
195344#1,1110.02
195238#1,1990.02
195151#9830.03
195041#1,1080.02
194946#1,0340.03
194845#1,0490.03
194763#8810.03
194647#9910.03
194538#1,0430.03
194448#9230.04
194341#1,0660.03
194242#1,0420.03
194146#9450.04
194029#1,2570.03
193943#9610.04
193834#1,1150.03
193733#1,1540.03
193629#1,2330.03
193535#1,1060.03
193433#1,1540.03
193332#1,1690.03
193233#1,1850.03
193134#1,1770.03
193047#9940.04
192951#9460.05
192850#9670.05
192763#8520.06
192671#7720.06
192588#6870.08
192476#7740.07
1923115#5880.10
192287#7000.08
192179#7450.07
192057#9160.05
191979#7080.08
191872#7660.07
191795#6100.10
1916101#5720.11
1915133#4830.16
191472#5940.11
191351#6210.10
191257#5240.13
191118#7700.08
191016#7650.08
190916#6950.10
190823#5270.15
19079#9510.06
190613#6890.10
190512#7170.09
19049#8330.07
19039#8120.08
190213#6210.11
19017#8880.07
190024#4730.16
189911#6330.10
18989#7710.07
189710#6980.09
189611#6900.09
18958#8190.07
189413#5770.11
189313#5510.12
189212#6140.10
189111#5720.11
189017#4420.15
188915#4870.14
18888#7750.07
188710#6060.10
18866#8880.05
18859#6640.08
18838#6960.08
18827#7880.06
188111#5430.11
18808#7060.07

Download Ford’s births by year (CSV)

Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.

Is Ford a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Ford has been given almost only to boys: 17 girls in 145 years of records.

Girls and boys named Ford: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.

How many people are named Ford, and how old are they?

8,420 alive in 2026, estimated

That is 76% of the 11,026 Americans ever recorded as Ford. The median Ford alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 15.

The 2020 Census counted 5,276 people named Ford (109 women and girls, 5,167 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,105 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.

Alive today, by age

100-1091
90-9924
80-89135
70-79265
60-69246
50-59160
40-49135
30-39266
20-29489
10-191,740
0-9 (median)4,940

Alive today, by generation

By generation
GenerationBornAlive
Silent Generation1928-1945136
Baby Boomers1946-1964490
Generation X1965-1980254
Millennials1981-1996350
Generation Z1997-20121,140
Generation Alpha2013-20256,050

An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.

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).

Where are babies named Ford born?

The states with the most babies named Ford are Texas, California and Florida, with 28% of its births recorded by state in 2025.

States with the most births: girls and boys together; rank among boys’ names in the state in 2025
StateBirths 2025Rank, boysvs. national
Texas75#4530.9×
California61#5050.9×
Florida38#4800.5×
Utah34#1611.4×
North Carolina29#3870.8×
Michigan27#3301.3×
New York25#6060.3×
Colorado24#2731.1×
Ohio23#4600.5×
Arizona20#3820.9×

Where Ford is more common than its national share predicts

Relative to its national share, Ford is most over-represented in Utah: since 1910 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.

Utah1.44×
Michigan1.34×
Colorado1.05×

Bars start at 1× (as often as the national share predicts).

States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ford with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.

Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ford

Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.

NameRecorded1880-2025
Jasper63,674
Emmett78,872
Hezekiah11,228
Jones5,495
Oliver270,680
Ansel4,811

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 Ford and names like it

  1. Compare Ford and JasperBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
  2. The most given names of the 2020sFord peaked in 2021.
  3. California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ford since 1910.
  4. From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Ford: every such name, by how often it is given.
  5. The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Ford.
  6. The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ford alive today were born 2013-2025.
  7. Names starting with FMost given first.

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