Meaning not yet researched.
Ford: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 642 in 2025. Its best rank was #439 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #439 in 2021; #474 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ford in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#474 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #439.
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Ford: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 642 boys in 2025. Peak: #439 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 707 (2021).
In 2025, 642 US boys were named Ford, making it the 474th most common boys’ name of the year, up 96 places from #570 in 2024. That is 135 more than the 507 boys named Ford in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #439, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 707. For comparison, it was #741 in 2015 and #1,109 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ford in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 8 babies. In all, 11,026 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 3,716 babies named Ford.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,316 US boys were named Ford; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 707. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,661 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ford ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #161 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Clifford (190,268 babies since 1880) and Stanford (7,727 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Stratford and Forde are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Stratford (5), Forde (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ford in the open dataset we use.
Ford is listed as a nickname for Brad, Bradford, Clifford.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 16 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 34 | #161 | #634 |
| Montana | 5 | #249 | — |
| Colorado | 24 | #273 | #490 |
| Michigan | 27 | #330 | #685 |
| Idaho | 7 | #348 | — |
| Iowa | 10 | #355 | — |
| Arizona | 20 | #382 | #688 |
| Washington | 19 | #387 | #876 |
| North Carolina | 29 | #387 | #513 |
| Indiana | 18 | #399 | #755 |
| Tennessee | 19 | #416 | #773 |
| Texas | 75 | #453 | #636 |
| Arkansas | 7 | #459 | #577 |
| Ohio | 23 | #460 | #633 |
| Virginia | 17 | #461 | #925 |
| Missouri | 13 | #467 | — |
| South Carolina | 10 | #479 | #543 |
| Florida | 38 | #480 | #1,047 |
| Oklahoma | 9 | #480 | #486 |
| Kansas | 7 | #485 | — |
| Oregon | 7 | #495 | #434 |
| Wisconsin | 10 | #497 | #797 |
| California | 61 | #505 | #687 |
| Connecticut | 5 | #519 | — |
| Georgia | 18 | #573 | #449 |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #574 | — |
| Illinois | 16 | #580 | #1,011 |
| New York | 25 | #606 | #1,522 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #613 | #859 |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #615 | #1,080 |
| Alabama | 7 | #642 | #585 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #649 | — |
| Minnesota | 7 | #671 | #834 |
| Maryland | 6 | #743 | — |
| New Jersey | 8 | #792 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 642 | #474 |
| 2024 | — | — | 507 | #570 |
| 2023 | — | — | 564 | #523 |
| 2022 | — | — | 649 | #477 |
| 2021 | — | — | 707 | #439 |
| 2020 | — | — | 647 | #459 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,376 | 497 | #562 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,401 | 417 | #635 |
| 2017 | — | — | 344 | #711 |
| 2016 | — | — | 342 | #714 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,345 | 327 | #741 |
| 2014 | — | — | 245 | #885 |
| 2013 | — | — | 183 | #1,048 |
| 2012 | — | — | 171 | #1,090 |
| 2011 | — | — | 139 | #1,245 |
| 2010 | — | — | 101 | #1,566 |
| 2009 | — | — | 94 | #1,673 |
| 2008 | — | — | 87 | #1,744 |
| 2007 | — | — | 66 | #2,075 |
| 2006 | — | — | 88 | #1,631 |
| 2005 | — | — | 62 | #2,015 |
| 2004 | — | — | 37 | #2,803 |
| 2003 | — | — | 54 | #2,085 |
| 2002 | — | — | 45 | #2,312 |
| 2001 | — | — | 41 | #2,396 |
| 2000 | — | — | 52 | #1,975 |
| 1999 | — | — | 36 | #2,483 |
| 1998 | — | — | 35 | #2,473 |
| 1997 | — | — | 49 | #1,897 |
| 1996 | — | — | 36 | #2,265 |
| 1995 | — | — | 36 | #2,226 |
| 1994 | — | — | 38 | #2,139 |
| 1993 | — | — | 27 | #2,656 |
| 1992 | — | — | 28 | #2,562 |
| 1991 | — | — | 26 | #2,628 |
| 1990 | — | — | 19 | #3,212 |
| 1989 | — | — | 22 | #2,818 |
| 1988 | — | — | 25 | #2,394 |
| 1987 | — | — | 20 | #2,662 |
| 1986 | — | — | 16 | #3,045 |
| 1985 | — | — | 17 | #2,871 |
| 1984 | — | — | 17 | #2,735 |
| 1983 | — | — | 16 | #2,830 |
| 1982 | — | — | 10 | #4,037 |
| 1981 | — | — | 14 | #3,093 |
| 1980 | — | — | 12 | #3,481 |
| 1979 | — | — | 23 | #2,187 |
| 1978 | — | — | 11 | #3,478 |
| 1977 | — | — | 9 | #3,942 |
| 1976 | — | — | 15 | #2,745 |
| 1975 | — | — | 15 | #2,676 |
| 1974 | — | — | 6 | #4,841 |
| 1973 | — | — | 19 | #2,156 |
| 1972 | — | — | 11 | #3,029 |
| 1971 | — | — | 20 | #2,078 |
| 1970 | — | — | 27 | #1,669 |
| 1969 | — | — | 26 | #1,617 |
| 1968 | — | — | 22 | #1,709 |
| 1967 | — | — | 22 | #1,677 |
| 1966 | — | — | 25 | #1,551 |
| 1965 | — | — | 28 | #1,464 |
| 1964 | — | — | 16 | #2,062 |
| 1963 | — | — | 30 | #1,437 |
| 1962 | — | — | 30 | #1,436 |
| 1961 | — | — | 32 | #1,415 |
| 1960 | — | — | 36 | #1,325 |
| 1959 | — | — | 48 | #1,124 |
| 1958 | — | — | 37 | #1,268 |
| 1957 | — | — | 42 | #1,204 |
| 1956 | — | — | 42 | #1,178 |
| 1955 | — | — | 26 | #1,515 |
| 1954 | — | — | 49 | #1,071 |
| 1953 | — | — | 44 | #1,112 |
| 1952 | — | — | 38 | #1,200 |
| 1951 | — | — | 51 | #984 |
| 1950 | — | — | 41 | #1,109 |
| 1949 | — | — | 46 | #1,035 |
| 1948 | — | — | 45 | #1,050 |
| 1947 | — | — | 63 | #882 |
| 1946 | — | — | 47 | #991 |
| 1945 | — | — | 38 | #1,044 |
| 1944 | — | — | 48 | #923 |
| 1943 | — | — | 41 | #1,066 |
| 1942 | — | — | 42 | #1,042 |
| 1941 | — | — | 46 | #945 |
| 1940 | — | — | 29 | #1,257 |
| 1939 | — | — | 43 | #961 |
| 1938 | — | — | 34 | #1,115 |
| 1937 | — | — | 33 | #1,154 |
| 1936 | — | — | 29 | #1,233 |
| 1935 | — | — | 35 | #1,106 |
| 1934 | — | — | 33 | #1,154 |
| 1933 | — | — | 32 | #1,169 |
| 1932 | — | — | 33 | #1,185 |
| 1931 | — | — | 34 | #1,177 |
| 1930 | — | — | 47 | #994 |
| 1929 | — | — | 51 | #946 |
| 1928 | — | — | 50 | #967 |
| 1927 | — | — | 63 | #852 |
| 1926 | — | — | 71 | #772 |
| 1925 | — | — | 88 | #687 |
| 1924 | — | — | 76 | #774 |
| 1923 | — | — | 115 | #588 |
| 1922 | — | — | 87 | #700 |
| 1921 | — | — | 79 | #745 |
| 1920 | — | — | 57 | #916 |
| 1919 | — | — | 79 | #708 |
| 1918 | — | — | 72 | #766 |
| 1917 | — | — | 95 | #610 |
| 1916 | — | — | 101 | #572 |
| 1915 | — | — | 133 | #483 |
| 1914 | — | — | 72 | #594 |
| 1913 | — | — | 51 | #621 |
| 1912 | — | — | 57 | #524 |
| 1911 | — | — | 18 | #771 |
| 1910 | — | — | 16 | #765 |
| 1909 | — | — | 16 | #695 |
| 1908 | — | — | 23 | #527 |
| 1907 | — | — | 9 | #952 |
| 1906 | — | — | 13 | #689 |
| 1905 | — | — | 12 | #717 |
| 1904 | — | — | 9 | #833 |
| 1903 | — | — | 9 | #812 |
| 1902 | — | — | 13 | #622 |
| 1901 | — | — | 7 | #889 |
| 1900 | — | — | 24 | #473 |
| 1899 | — | — | 11 | #633 |
| 1898 | — | — | 9 | #772 |
| 1897 | — | — | 10 | #698 |
| 1896 | — | — | 11 | #690 |
| 1895 | — | — | 8 | #820 |
| 1894 | — | — | 13 | #577 |
| 1893 | — | — | 13 | #551 |
| 1892 | — | — | 12 | #615 |
| 1891 | — | — | 11 | #572 |
| 1890 | — | — | 17 | #442 |
| 1889 | — | — | 15 | #487 |
| 1888 | — | — | 8 | #775 |
| 1887 | — | — | 10 | #606 |
| 1886 | — | — | 6 | #888 |
| 1885 | — | — | 9 | #664 |
| 1883 | — | — | 8 | #696 |
| 1882 | — | — | 7 | #788 |
| 1881 | — | — | 11 | #543 |
| 1880 | — | — | 8 | #706 |
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).