Ferris
Ferris is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 56 births. Its best rank was 765th, in 1902.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 560.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 202456 births
- Best rank
- #765in 1902
- Since 1893
- 3,105people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,798 boys have been named Ferris in the United States since 1893, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2024, with 56 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1954, and the 1920s alone account for 15%. It has spent 8 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 307 girls have also been given it, 9.9% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Ferris | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 24 | |
| 1900s | 49 | |
| 1910s | 286 | |
| 1920s | 422 | |
| 1930s | 235 | |
| 1940s | 259 | |
| 1950s | 243 | |
| 1960s | 137 | |
| 1970s | 130 | |
| 1980s | 112 | |
| 1990s | 146 | |
| 2000s | 185 | |
| 2010s | 346 | |
| 2020s | 224 |
In 2024, its biggest year
Ferris was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2024 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Theodore and James. See all of 2024.
Names that rose and fell with Ferris
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Gradypeak 2008
- Coypeak 1926
- Hollispeak 1921
- Benedictpeak 2024
- Lelandpeak 2007
- Sylvanpeak 1918
- Rexfordpeak 1925
- Olanpeak 1920
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.