girls:
472 births since 1915
#5244 (8th percentile)
boys:
4.3k births since 1902
#1842 (60th percentile)
overall:
4.8k births since 1902
#3925 (49th percentile)
The name Farrell is the #3,925 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,822 recorded births since 1902. This represents the 49.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 49.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,842 (59.8% percentile) for all time with 4,350 births since 1902. For girls, it ranks #5,244 (8.2% percentile) for all time with 472 births since 1915.
Farrell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1902 (1902 for boys and 1915 for girls). Birth data for Farrell is available in 117 out of the 122 years between 1902 and 2023 (117 years for boys and 60 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Farrell has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 90.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Farrell reached its peak popularity in 1935, achieving the 17.7% percentile (ranked #425) with 90 births per million. The name was most common in 1935, with 90 births per million (ranked 17.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Farrell ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 3.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Farrell reached its peak popularity in 1942, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #611) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1934, with 13 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2014.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Farrell".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Farrell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 38.1% confident that Farrell is pronounced as FA-ruhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is FEH-ruhl, at 31.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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