Ferrel Popularity by Year

Follow Ferrel across every available national year. Rankings and birth counts remain separated by the source dataset’s girl and boy categories.

Ferrel birth-count history

The chart samples long histories for faster loading. The complete table below includes every recorded year.

Year	Category	Births	Rank	Change from previous recorded year
1957	Boys	5	#3,993	Down 458 places
1956	Boys	6	#3,535	Down 334 places
1955	Boys	7	#3,201	Up 224 places
1953	Boys	6	#3,425	Down 550 places
1952	Boys	8	#2,875	Up 191 places
1951	Boys	7	#3,066	Down 486 places
1950	Boys	9	#2,580	Up 91 places
1947	Boys	9	#2,671	Down 137 places
1946	Boys	9	#2,534	Up 178 places
1942	Boys	8	#2,712	Down 379 places
1941	Boys	10	#2,333	Down 531 places
1940	Boys	15	#1,802	Up 357 places
1939	Boys	11	#2,159	Up 26 places
1938	Boys	11	#2,185	Up 147 places
1937	Boys	10	#2,332	Down 31 places
1936	Boys	10	#2,301	Down 372 places
1935	Boys	14	#1,929	Up 93 places
1935	Girls	5	#4,204	Up 222 places
1934	Boys	13	#2,022	Down 193 places
1933	Boys	15	#1,829	Up 1,263 places
1932	Boys	7	#3,092	Down 885 places
1931	Boys	12	#2,207	Down 128 places
1930	Boys	14	#2,079	Up 238 places
1929	Boys	12	#2,317	Up 1,380 places
1928	Boys	6	#3,697	Down 1,174 places
1927	Boys	11	#2,523	Down 337 places
1926	Boys	14	#2,186	Up 636 places
1925	Girls	6	#4,426	Down 28 places
1924	Boys	10	#2,822	Down 1,006 places
1923	Boys	19	#1,816	Up 327 places
1922	Boys	15	#2,143	Up 843 places
1921	Boys	9	#2,986	Down 221 places
1920	Boys	10	#2,765	Up 971 places
1920	Girls	6	#4,398	Up 196 places
1919	Boys	6	#3,736	Down 368 places
1918	Boys	7	#3,368	Down 412 places
1917	Boys	8	#2,956	Down 913 places
1917	Girls	5	#4,594	—
1916	Boys	14	#2,043	Up 578 places
1915	Boys	9	#2,621	Up 643 places
1914	Boys	5	#3,264	Down 768 places
1913	Boys	6	#2,496	—