girls:
95 births since 1986
#5621 (2nd percentile)
boys:
28 births since 1944
#4558 (1st percentile)
overall:
123 births since 1944
#7616 (2nd percentile)
The name Ferrin is the #7,616 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 123 recorded births since 1944. This represents the 1.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,621 (1.6% percentile) for all time with 95 births since 1986. For boys, it ranks #4,558 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 28 births since 1944.
Ferrin first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1944 (1944 for boys and 1986 for girls). Birth data for Ferrin is available in 17 out of the 74 years between 1944 and 2017 (12 years for girls and 5 years for boys). 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 Ferrin has been given predominantly to girls, with 77.2% of all recorded births being female. In 2017, 100.0% of babies named Ferrin were girls. Interestingly, until around 1986, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1944 to 1985), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (94.1% girls from 1986 to 2017).
For girls, Ferrin reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #789) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2017.
For boys, Ferrin reached its peak popularity in 1954, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #615) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1944, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2007.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ferrin".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Ferrin is pronounced as FEH-rihn, which has 2 syllables.
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