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Farrell

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10% girls / 90% boys

Origin of the name

Farrell comes from an Irish surname, Ó Fearghail.

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Classic name

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1935 was its best year: 96 births, or 1 baby in 21,770. Few fads, plenty of staying power: it appears in 118 years out of 146. No births recorded in 2025: the name is no longer given, or too rarely to be published.
4,355births since 1880
1930sgeneration
No. 589rank at its peak, in 1935

Where babies named Farrell are born

1935

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The darker the blue, the more common Farrell is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.

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Girls and boys, decade by decade

DecadeGirlsBoys
1900s0%100%
1910s16%84%
1920s6%94%
1930s8%92%
1940s9%91%
1950s4%96%
1960s6%94%
1970s12%88%
1980s26%74%
1990s28%72%
2000s13%87%
2010s5%95%
2020s0%100%