Ford

What Ford means

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

Editor’s note Up from #741 in 2015 to #474 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Ford?

US: Rising: up from #741 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #4747 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2021, when 707 boys got the name (#439 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 2,661 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 18,129 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 4,910 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.

Where in the US

Most popular in UT (1.73 per 1,000 boys), MT (1.33 per 1,000 boys), CO (0.89 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Ford is #474 in the US and #1705 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 Ford were boys.

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

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Fred80 US · 65 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Ford

Boys

• Hayes#162“brushwood”^*
• Oakley#454“oak + woodland clearing, glade”^*
• Rhett#188“advice”^*
• Remington#307“settlement by the boundary stream”^*
• Ellis#243“benevolent, kind”^*
• Jensen#282Editor’s note Up from #395 in 2015 to #282 in 2025 in the US

For a sister

• Blakely#191Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #191 vs #1,407 in 2025
• Sutton#181“south + town”^*
• Carter#454“son of Arthur”^*
• Sawyer#290“one who saws”^*
• Ellis#682“benevolent, kind”^*
• Remington#511“settlement by the boundary stream”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Ford’s. Rank is US 2025.