Ferrell
Recorded 1897–2015 · United States
Ferrell was most popular in 1935, when 57 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,663 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,073 people named Ferrell.
Ferrell over time
How old is the name Ferrell?
Ferrell first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1897, which makes it about 128 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 99 of the 129 years since. It was last recorded in 2015.
How many people are named Ferrell?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,073 American births named Ferrell between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 891 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Ferrell in 2025?
Ferrell was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Ferrell getting more or less popular?
Ferrell is out of use. It averaged 7 births a year a decade ago and has not been recorded in the last five years.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Ferrell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Ferrell is mostly a boy’s name — 7.8% of the 2,073 Americans given it were girls and 92.2% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Ferrell?
Roughly 891 Americans named Ferrell are alive today — 43% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 65 years old, and half are between 48 and 77.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Ferrell is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org