Name meaning & stats
Fern
Fern. 8,490 US babies since 1940, peak 1940.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
In US birth records
Peak year: 1940
8,490 US babies were named Fern between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Fern (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 93% of the family
- Fern 93%
- Ferne 6%
- Ferrin 1%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1940)