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Fern
Pronounced /fɜːn/
Rank in 2024
#1,262
Born in 2024
184
Peak year
1918 · #164
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 184 girls were named Fern, about 1 in every 8,767.
- It peaked in 1918 with 1,341 babies, ranked #164.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 37,477 girls have been named Fern since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Fern per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 1.0Greatest1901–27
- 0.4Silent1928–45
- 0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 20,566 babies, 1.00 per 1,000. Silent: 7,836 babies, 0.38 per 1,000. Boomers: 3,890 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Gen X: 646 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Millennials: 220 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 313 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,369 babies, 0.07 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From fern; in the case of the surname, it was given to someone who lived in a place where there was an abundance of these plants.
- A female given name.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /fɜːn/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Fern, CC BY-SA 4.0.