Ferran is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Ferdinand, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Ferran: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 25 in 2025. Its best rank was #4,170 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Ferran in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,170 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Ferran: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 25 boys in 2025. Peak: #4,170 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 25 (2025).
In 2025, 25 US boys were named Ferran, making it the 4,170th most common boys’ name of the year, up 582 places from #4,752 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 21 boys named Ferran in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #4,170, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 25. For comparison, it was #12,683 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Ferran in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #7,975, reached in 1986. That year also had the most girls given the name: 8. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ferran in 13 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1986 with 8 babies. In all, 170 US babies have been given the name, 11% of them girls and 89% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 110 babies named Ferran.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 134 US boys were named Ferran; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 25. In 2025 that was about 1 in 68,323 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ferdinand (8,909 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Ferran in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).