# Ferguson (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ferguson/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | “son of fergus” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈfɝɡəsən/, 3 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Fergusson, Furgason, Furgerson, Furgeson |
| US babies named this | 146 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 146 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 36, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Fergus + -son, translation of Gaelic MacFhearguis, "son of Fergus".

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 5 | 7,075 |
| 1988 | 6 | 6,686 |
| 1995 | 5 | 9,309 |
| 2005 | 5 | 12,011 |
| 2012 | 6 | 11,244 |
| 2013 | 7 | 10,004 |
| 2017 | 7 | 10,042 |
| 2018 | 6 | 11,216 |
| 2019 | 8 | 9,148 |
| 2020 | 7 | 9,895 |
| 2021 | 5 | 12,738 |
| 2022 | 8 | 9,260 |
| 2023 | 7 | 10,076 |
| 2024 | 5 | 12,914 |
| 2025 | 5 | 12,631 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 3 | 4,052 |
| 2007 | 3 | 4,333 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4,632 |
| 2016 | 5 | 3,478 |
| 2017 | 5 | 3,449 |
| 2021 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2023 | 3 | 4,991 |
| 2024 | 5 | 3,688 |
| 2025 | 6 | 3,256 |

## In other languages

- Chinese: 弗格森
- Esperanto: Fergjuson
- French: Ferguson
- Russian: Фе́ргюсо́н

## People named Ferguson

- Ferguson Jenkins, Canadian baseball player
- John Ferguson McLennan, British lawyer and ethnologist (1827–1881)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.