Fernanda vs Ferol
American parents have registered 20,156 Fernandas since 1880, against 628 Ferols. Fernanda is still ahead, with 549 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Fernanda Ferol
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 135 years in which either name was published, Fernanda for 85 years and Ferol for 50 years. The lead changed hands 13 times.
9 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Fernanda | Ferol | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 20,156 | 628 |
| Most in one year | 1,282 | 24 |
| Babies in 2025 | 549 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 20,000 | 100 |
| Median age today | 15 | 81 |
| Peak year | 2009 | 1921 |
| Best rank | 258th girls | 1,867th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 551st | unranked |
| First recorded | 1914 | 1889 |
| Girls / boys | 20,130 / 26 | 618 / 10 |
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 Ferols alive today are over 81; half the Fernandas are over 15. That is 66 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Fernanda and Ferol.