# Ferry (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ferry/  
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 and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 75 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 65 / 10 (13% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 5 | 5,838 |
| 1956 | 5 | 6,255 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1919 | 5 | 4,388 |
| 1921 | 8 | 3,309 |
| 1923 | 5 | 4,450 |
| 1925 | 6 | 3,894 |
| 1926 | 10 | 2,789 |
| 1933 | 5 | 3,831 |
| 1940 | 5 | 3,626 |
| 1943 | 5 | 3,709 |
| 1952 | 6 | 3,492 |
| 1954 | 5 | 4,010 |
| 1960 | 5 | 4,232 |

## People named Ferry

- Ferry Corsten, Dutch trance producer and DJ (born 1973)
- Ferry Weertman, Dutch swimmer
- Ferry Graf, Austrian-Finnish singer (1931-2017)
- Ferry Sikla, German actor (1865-1932)
- Ferry de Haan, Dutch footballer
- Ferry Doedens, Dutch actor
- Ferry de Regt, Dutch footballer
- Frederick III, Duke of Lorraine, French noble
- Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine, French noble
- Frederick II, Duke of Lorraine, French duke
- Frederick II of Lorraine, Count of Vaudémont, Count of Vaudémont
- Frederick I of Lorraine, Count of Vaudémont, French nobleman

## 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.