How Many People Are Named Ferne?
people named Ferne are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 724,120 people in the US has this name
Based on 4,676 babies named Ferne in Social Security records from 1884 to 2020, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
247 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of FERN.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Ferne in English. Counting Ferne and these spellings together, about 8,387 people alive in the US have the name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Ferne in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Ferne alive today is about 78 years old, and 97% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 72 and 87 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Ferne first appears in the records in 1884 and was given most often in 1916, to 247 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2020.
Babies given the name each year, 1884 to 2020
🏆 Rank History
Ferne has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #400, in 1916.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #400 (1916) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #451 in the 1910s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Ferne alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Ferne were born in Pennsylvania than in any other state: about 54 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Ferne was given 6.5 times as often in Iowa, 5.2 times in South Dakota and 5 times in Nebraska.
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