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Feryal

Girls' name

From Ottoman Turkish فَرْیال; literal meaning unconfirmed

Feryal has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 2006. 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 2006, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Feryal, 2007

1 in 800,000

Feryal over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Feryal: meaning, origin, and history

From Ottoman Turkish فَرْیال; literal meaning unconfirmed

Persian

What Feryal means

Feryal is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Feryal is used in Turkish. Its origins include Persian.

Feryal comes through Ottoman Turkish فَرْیال and fa-cls فریال.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 girls were recorded with the name Feryal between 2006 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2006; its best national rank was #15,760 in 2006.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Feryal?

Feryal had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2007
1 in 800,000
5 of 3,997,748 births
Among girls only
1 in 384,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2007
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
554,207 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Feryal sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2007 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 554,207 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Feryal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Feryals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Feryal was born before 2006 — so the typical Feryal is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11
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2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Feryal 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2006 (6)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#15,760
2006

Spellings of Feryal

Feryal is not the most common spelling — Beryl is, with 51.3% against Feryal's 0.06%.

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.

Feryal around the world

Where Feryal ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2023–2023
    #5,688
    in 2023
  • France
    1982–2021
    #5,587
    in 2021

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Feryal by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#15,760
2006
Peak year
2006
6 that year
First recorded
2006
Last recorded
2007
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Feryal

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Feryal

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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