Pharrell

Where Pharrell comes from

The dictionaries list Pharrell as a given name — a male given name originating as a coinage, of African American usage — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 2003
    Debut at its peak, #1,781
    #1,781 among boys with 67 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 2005
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,241.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name originating as a coinage, of African American usage.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Pharrell hasn't yet.

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.