Ferdie
Ferdy or Ferdie is a given name, often a diminutive of the masculine given name Ferdinand. It may refer to:
- English
Meaning & Origin of Ferdie
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Ferdy or Ferdie is a given name, often a diminutive of the masculine given name Ferdinand. It may refer to:
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- English
The Story of Ferdie
American parents first put Ferdie on the record books as a baby boy name in 1894, with 5 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 1921, when 14 Ferdies were born — ranking #2,265 that year. About 32% of every Ferdie on record arrived during the 1920s, its defining decade. Ferdie last appeared in the published SSA data in 1963, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 233 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1890s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Ferdie
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Ferdie. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
Notable people named Ferdie
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- Ferdy Sambo (born 1973), Indonesian former police general
- Ferdie Aston (1871–1926), English-born South African rugby union player
- Ferdie Bergh (1906–1973), South African rugby union player
- Ferdy Mayne , German actor born Ferdinand Philip Mayer-Horckel (1916–1998)
- Ferdie Pacheco (1927–2017), former personal physician and cornerman for Muhammad Ali and other boxing champions and TV analyst
- Ferdinand de Rothschild (1839–1898), French-born British banker, art collector and politician
- Ferdie Schupp (1891–1971), American Major League Baseball pitcher
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Names that sound like Ferdie
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About the name Ferdie
Ferdie is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1894 and has accumulated 233 births in the dataset. Ferdie's peak popularity came in 1921 when it ranked #2,265. Use the chart and map above to compare Ferdie's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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