Ferne
Ferne is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 400th, in 1916.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1916247 births
- Best rank
- #400in 1916
- Since 1884
- 4,676people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,676 girls have been named Ferne in the United States since 1884, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 247 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 247 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1919, and the 1910s alone account for 34%. It has spent 50 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Ferne | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 53 | |
| 1890s | 276 | |
| 1900s | 435 | |
| 1910s | 1,578 | |
| 1920s | 1,358 | |
| 1930s | 466 | |
| 1940s | 297 | |
| 1950s | 159 | |
| 1960s | 44 | |
| 2010s | 5 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1916, its biggest year
Ferne was the 400th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1916 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Ferne
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Fernpeak 1918
- Marguerittepeak 1919
- Edythepeak 1918
- Lurlinepeak 1921
- Margueritepeak 1918
- Myrlepeak 1915
- Beatricepeak 1921
- Ionepeak 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.