# Ford (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ford/  
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 | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /fɔɹd/, 1 syllable |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 11,026 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 11,009 / 17 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 193, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | 17,345 |
| 2018 | 6 | 14,401 |
| 2019 | 6 | 14,376 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 139 | 1,245 |
| 2012 | 171 | 1,090 |
| 2013 | 183 | 1,048 |
| 2014 | 245 | 885 |
| 2015 | 327 | 741 |
| 2016 | 342 | 714 |
| 2017 | 344 | 711 |
| 2018 | 417 | 635 |
| 2019 | 497 | 562 |
| 2020 | 647 | 459 |
| 2021 | 707 | 439 |
| 2022 | 649 | 477 |
| 2023 | 564 | 523 |
| 2024 | 507 | 570 |
| 2025 | 642 | 474 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 3 | 4,527 |
| 2010 | 6 | 2,941 |
| 2012 | 5 | 3,416 |
| 2013 | 8 | 2,403 |
| 2015 | 3 | 4,747 |
| 2016 | 11 | 2,027 |
| 2017 | 12 | 1,923 |
| 2018 | 11 | 1,991 |
| 2019 | 13 | 1,745 |
| 2020 | 12 | 1,825 |
| 2021 | 8 | 2,493 |
| 2022 | 11 | 2,018 |
| 2023 | 11 | 2,007 |
| 2024 | 14 | 1,758 |
| 2025 | 15 | 1,705 |

## In other languages

- Bulgarian: Форд
- Chinese: 福特
- Czech: Ford

## People named Ford

- Francis Ford Coppola, American filmmaker (born 1939)
- Ford Madox Brown, British painter (1821–1893)
- Ford Madox Ford, English writer and publisher (1873-1939)
- Ford Sterling, American comedian (1883–1939)
- Ford Konno, American swimmer
- Ford Rainey, American actor (1908–2005)
- Ford Beebe, American screenwriter, film director (1888–1978)
- William Gibson, American-Canadian speculative fiction writer (born 1948)
- Stanley Rous, 6th President of FIFA (1895–1986)

## 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.