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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Farrel

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

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not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

831

peak year 1937

More common than

87%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1937
25 births
Best rank
#1,352
in 1937
First recorded
1913
#2,347 that year
Last recorded
2003
no later published record
Average birth year
1945
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
65 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 193725#1,352Peak
  2. 195524#1,580
  3. 195221#1,678
  4. 193220#1,604
  5. 195020#1,670

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #1,352 in 1937 · peak births 25 in 1937

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 96% boys■ 4% girls

831 boys · 38 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Farrel has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.