Ferd

Where Ferd comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Ferd.

Ferd through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #809 among boys, with 6 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1889
    Peak, #581
    11 babies named Ferd, its best rank.
  3. 1891
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1905
    Ferd Johnson born
    Comic strip cartoonist
  5. 1954
    Ferd Crone born
    Dutch politician
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Ferd Crone · Dutch politician, born 1954
  • Ferd Johnson · Comic strip cartoonist, 1905–1996
  • Ferd Hayward · Canadian racewalker, 1911–1988
  • Ferd Lahur · Luxembourgian footballer, 1929–2019

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.