Farrell
Farrell is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 5 births. Its best rank was 592nd, in 1935.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 50.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 193596 births
- Best rank
- #592in 1935
- Since 1902
- 4,827people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,355 boys have been named Farrell in the United States since 1902, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1935, with 96 births.
The name has all but left use: 5 births in 2024, against 96 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1951, and the 1930s alone account for 18%. It has spent 38 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 472 girls have also been given it, 9.8% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Farrell | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 28 | |
| 1910s | 238 | |
| 1920s | 465 | |
| 1930s | 771 | |
| 1940s | 595 | |
| 1950s | 708 | |
| 1960s | 529 | |
| 1970s | 359 | |
| 1980s | 214 | |
| 1990s | 138 | |
| 2000s | 173 | |
| 2010s | 104 | |
| 2020s | 33 |
In 1935, its biggest year
Farrell was the 592nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1935 were Robert, James, John, William and Richard. See all of 1935.
Names that rose and fell with Farrell
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Marlinpeak 1935
- Rayfordpeak 1937
- Cleophuspeak 1947
- Doylepeak 1931
- Donaldpeak 1934
- Deltonpeak 1933
- Teddypeak 1949
- Wendelpeak 1940
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.