Ferne

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Ferne: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Ferne: Recorded since 1996, it reached #424 in 2019, and it stood at #638 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
31times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#424highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2683
1997	#2411
1999	#2444
2000	#2746
2001	#2783
2003	#1843
2004	#2802
2005	#1796
2006	#1660
2007	#2085
2008	#1815
2009	#1909
2010	#1993
2011	#3185
2012	#2717
2013	#2062
2014	#940
2015	#1007
2016	#790
2017	#836
2018	#633
2019	#632
2020	#771
2021	#688
2022	#683
2023	#865
2024	#980

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 27 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #638 among girls in Scotland, #980 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2683 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #980 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Ferne appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 27 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 677 births with the name.

Ferne across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Ferne's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#2683 (1996)	#632 (2019)	#980 (2024)	27 of 29	677 (1996–2024)	64 (2018)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#661 (2016)	#661 (2016)	#856 (2023)	2 of 8	8 (2016–2023)	5 (2016)

Ferne by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Ferne in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	17	3 of 10	6
2000s	90	9 of 10	10
2010s	337	10 of 10	34
2020sbusiest	233	5 of 10	47

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 47 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2013 and 2014, when recorded births rose by 26, from 13 to 39.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Ferne appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #424 in Northern Ireland in 2019.

Ferne's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#980	36	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#865	41	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#683	54	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#688	55	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#771	47	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#632	62	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#633	64	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#836	46	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#790	49	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1007	35	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#940	39	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2062	13	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2717	9	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#3185	7	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1993	13	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1909	13	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1815	14	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2085	11	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1660	14	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1796	12	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2802	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1843	10	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2783	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2746	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2444	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2411	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2683	5	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#424	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#661	5	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#638	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 27 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #424, first reached in 2019.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 64 births, registered in England and Wales in 2018.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2016, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Fern · #233, 32y
Fernando · #418, 55y
Feroz · #2150, 19y
Ferris · #2707, 20y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Bree · #424, 29y
Lorena · #424, 32y
Calla · #418, 27y
Elara · #418, 23y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Annie-Mae · #424, 26y
Azaria · #424, 29y
Bree · #424, 29y
Enna · #424, 16y

Ferne was ranked #424 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2019. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Ferne and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Ferne without appearing here.

Ferne moved ahead of

Belinda Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2062 and #2062 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #940 and #4684.
Ellinor Compare
In 2011 they stood at #3185 and #3185 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #2717 and #5876.
Denise Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2717 and #1720 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #2062 and #4739.
Kerry Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2717 and #2215 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #2062 and #4739.

Moved ahead of Ferne

Ida Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2444 and #2770 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #2746 and #2167.
Harper Compare
In 2006 they stood at #1660 and #2137 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #2085 and #1573.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #632 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #771 and #460.
Frida Compare
In 2019 they stood at #632 and #651 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #771 and #683.

Moved the opposite way to Ferne

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ferne went from #2683 to #980 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ferne went from #2683 to #980 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ferne went from #2683 to #980 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ferne went from #2683 to #980 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Ferne

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ferne went from #2683 to #980 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ferne went from #2683 to #980 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ferne went from #2683 to #980 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ferne went from #2683 to #980 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #424 in Northern Ireland in 2019. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ferne

Ferne at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ferne across 2 official records

Ferne by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Ferne appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Ferne

Ferne and the names beside it

Ferne moved ahead of

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Ferne at a glance

Ferne across 2 official records

Ferne by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Ferne appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Ferne

Ferne and the names beside it

Ferne moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Ferne

Moved the opposite way to Ferne

Moved the same way as Ferne