Ferd vs Fernanda

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Ferd Fernanda

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 138 years in which either name was published, Fernanda for 82 years and Ferd for 56 years. The lead changed hands 13 times.

• 1880–1922 Ferd ahead
• 1923–1925 Fernanda ahead
• 1926–1939 Ferd ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1943–1945 Fernanda ahead
• 1946–1949 Ferd ahead
• 1953–2025 Fernanda ahead, apart from one short spell

6 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Ferds alive today are over 77; half the Fernandas are over 15. That is 62 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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