Fergus

What Fergus means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Fergus yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #396 vs #5,045 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Fergus?

US: Falling: down from #4545 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #577 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 24 boys got the name (#4321 that year). First in the US records in 1916.

How common

• About 1 in 89,899 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,640 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 333 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

US vs UK

Fergus is #5045 in the US and #396 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Fergus were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

If you like Fergus

Boys

• Kieran#389Editor’s note Up from #512 in 2015 to #389 in 2025 in the US
• Lachlan#606Editor’s note Up from #767 in 2015 to #606 in 2025 in the US
• Liam#1Form of William, meaning “will + helmet”^*
• Declan#139Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #139 vs #372 in 2025
• Callum#118Variant of Calum, meaning “dove”^*
• Calum#799“dove”^*

For a sister

• Rowan#249“little red one”^*
• Maeve#76“intoxicating”^*
• Kenna#759“descendant of Cionaodh”^*
• Guinevere#898Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #898 vs #2,788 in 2025
• Ellis#682“benevolent, kind”^*
• Alayna#332Editor’s note Down from #223 in 2015 to #332 in 2025 in the US

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Irish & Celtic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Fergus’s. Rank is US 2025.