girls:
17 births since 2015
#5699 (0th percentile)
boys:
9.9k births since 1880
#1175 (74th percentile)
overall:
9.9k births since 1880
#2689 (65th percentile)
The name Ford is the #2,689 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,876 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 65.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 65.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,175 (74.4% percentile) for all time with 9,859 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,699 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 17 births since 2015.
Ford has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 2015 for girls). Birth data for Ford is available in 143 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (143 years for boys and 3 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 Ford has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Ford reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 56.0% percentile (ranked #410) with 377 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 377 births per million (ranked 56.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2002, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Ford ranks #461 for boys (49.5% percentile) with 308 births per million, which is 81.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Ford reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #944) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ford".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Ford. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Ford is pronounced as ford, which has 1 syllables.
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