Ferdinand
Ferdinand is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 28 births. Its best rank was 229th, in 1884.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 280.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1918259 births
- Best rank
- #229in 1884
- Since 1880
- 8,885people given the name
The story in the numbers
8,885 boys have been named Ferdinand in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 259 births.
The name has all but left use: 28 births in 2024, against 259 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1929, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 83 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Ferdinand | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 383 | |
| 1890s | 354 | |
| 1900s | 330 | |
| 1910s | 1,734 | |
| 1920s | 1,774 | |
| 1930s | 998 | |
| 1940s | 603 | |
| 1950s | 632 | |
| 1960s | 523 | |
| 1970s | 444 | |
| 1980s | 335 | |
| 1990s | 235 | |
| 2000s | 195 | |
| 2010s | 229 | |
| 2020s | 116 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Ferdinand was the 363rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Ferdinand
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Emilpeak 1917
- Adolphpeak 1917
- Roscoepeak 1920
- Melvillepeak 1918
- Granvillepeak 1918
- Lutherpeak 1922
- Omerpeak 1918
- Frankpeak 1918
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.