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Ferran

Boy · feh-RAHN · Germanic

Ferran is a boys' name of Germanic origin, meaning “bold voyager”. In 2025 it ranked 4,138th for boys in the US (25 babies).

What does Ferran mean?

Germanic: Catalan form of Ferdinand

“bold voyager”

The Catalan form of Ferdinand, the name of two kings of Aragon, including Ferdinand the Catholic.

Say it
feh-RAHN

Is Ferran a girl's or a boy's name?

Ferran is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 25 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Ferran in the UK?

No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2009, with 4 boys.

1996Busiest: 4 in 20092021
Ferran in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20213#4,989
20200–
20190–
20180–
20173#4,995
20160–
20150–
20140–
20130–
20120–
20113#4,837
20100–
20094#3,909
20083#4,615
20073#4,486
20060–
20050–
20040–
20030–
20020–
20010–
20000–
19990–
19980–
19970–
19961#3,776

How popular is Ferran in the US?

Rank in 2025
#4,138among boys
Babies in 2025
25about 1 in 68,000 boys
Five-year trend
Risingup 79% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 25 boys in the US were named Ferran, making it the 4,138th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,976th. It first appears in the records in 2012.

2025 had the most boys named Ferran of any year since it first appeared, in 2012.

Half of all the boys named Ferran in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.

2012Busiest: 25 in 20252025
Ferran in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202525#4,138
202421#4,697
202322#4,606
202216#5,629
202112#6,693
202014#5,976
20198#8,883
201816#5,536
20170–
20160–
20155#12,080
20146#10,711
20130–
20127#9,703

Names like Ferran

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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