Ferrell
Ferrell is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 917th, in 1935.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 193548 births
- Best rank
- #917in 1935
- Since 1897
- 2,073people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,911 boys have been named Ferrell in the United States since 1897, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1935, with 48 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 48 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1944, and the 1930s alone account for 19%. It has spent 4 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 162 girls have also been given it, 7.8% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Ferrell | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 167 | |
| 1920s | 269 | |
| 1930s | 355 | |
| 1940s | 331 | |
| 1950s | 254 | |
| 1960s | 197 | |
| 1970s | 120 | |
| 1980s | 88 | |
| 1990s | 56 | |
| 2000s | 42 | |
| 2010s | 27 |
In 1935, its biggest year
Ferrell was the 917th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1935 were Robert, James, John, William and Richard. See all of 1935.
Names that rose and fell with Ferrell
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lynwoodpeak 1935
- Ozellpeak 1937
- Glynpeak 1934
- Marshellpeak 1930
- Harlonpeak 1939
- Carlispeak 1946
- Rayburnpeak 1938
- Doylepeak 1931
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.