girls:
37.3k births since 1880
#709 (88th percentile)
boys:
513 births since 1884
#4073 (11th percentile)
overall:
37.8k births since 1880
#1285 (83rd percentile)
The name Fern is the #1,285 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 37,806 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 83.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 83.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #709 (87.6% percentile) for all time with 37,293 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,073 (11.1% percentile) for all time with 513 births since 1884.
Fern has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1884 for boys).
The name Fern has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Fern reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 74.0% percentile (ranked #150) with 1,227 births per million. The name was most common in 1916, with 1,227 births per million (ranked 74.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1994, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Fern ranks #796 for girls (16.0% percentile) with 89 births per million, which is 7.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Fern reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 4.2% percentile (ranked #482) with 30 births per million. The name was most common in 1903, with 85 births per million (ranked 2.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Fern".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Fern. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Fern is pronounced as fern, which has 1 syllables.
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