Ferrel
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ferrel has been given to 399 babies in the U.S. since 1913. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1923, with 19 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% boys, 6% girls all-time.
Babies named Ferrel, 1957
1 in 840,000
Ferrel over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Ferrel over time
In 1957, Ferrel went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Ferrel?
Ferrel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1957, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1957
- 1 in 840,000
- 5 of 4,201,368 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 431,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1957
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 582,434 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ferrel sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1957 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 582,434 children born in 1957 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ferrel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ferrels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ferrel was born before 1932 — so the typical Ferrel is around 93 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 31.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 48.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 48
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 31.0% of all recorded uses (117).
Is Ferrel rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1923 (19)
- Years since peak
- 102
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.4% average annual change
Spellings of Ferrel
Ferrel is not the most common spelling — Terrell is, with 29.1% against Ferrel's 0.30%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Ferrel is used
Across 1910–2025, Ferrel was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 374,352 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Arkansas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ferrel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ferrel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Ferrel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ferrel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.