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Pharrell

#7,547 in 2025Boys' name

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Pharrell has been given to 460 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #7,547 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 67 recorded.

Babies named Pharrell, 2025

1 in 301,000

Pharrell over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pharrell: meaning, origin, and history

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

coinages

What Pharrell means

Pharrell is a modern given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Pharrell is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Pharrell is a modern formation.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Pharrell is pronounced /fəˈɹɛl/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 460 boys were recorded with the name Pharrell between 2003 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 67 in 2003; its best national rank was #1,794 in 2003.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,556 in 2020 to #7,547 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,223 in 2015 to #7,547 in 2025.

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 Pharrell?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,547
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pharrell sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pharrell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pharrells were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pharrell was born before 2009 — so the typical Pharrell is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
50.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
460
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Choose a decade

2000s — 50.7% of all recorded uses (233).

Is Pharrell 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
+1,261
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,009
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,324
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.79×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
16.4%
Peak was 2003 (67)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,794
2003

Spellings of Pharrell

Pharrell is not the most common spelling — Darrell is, with 91.6% against Pharrell's 0.26%.

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 Pharrell is used

Across 1910–2025, Pharrell was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,316,871 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Michigan1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —
  7. 7South Carolina1 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. Pharrell has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Pharrell around the world

Where Pharrell 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
    2002–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • France
    2003–2025
    #1,625
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2023–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2009–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Pharrell by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,547
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,009
Best rank ever
#1,794
2003
Peak year
2003
67 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
460
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Pharrell

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

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Sibling names for Pharrell

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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