NameTides

Fergal

Fergal was the #2,664 boys' name in England & Wales in 2025 (8 babies).

Fergal as a boy’s name

  • England & Wales
  • Scotland
  • Northern Ireland
  • Ireland
Fergal as a boy’s name, England & Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, IrelandBabies per 1,000 in the published list, 1964–2025, for England & Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland. Gaps mark years with too few babies to be published.02.557.510197019801990200020102020England & Wales
Fergal as a boy’s name, England & Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, IrelandBabies per 1,000 in the published list, 1964–2025, for England & Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland. Gaps mark years with too few babies to be published.02.557.510198020002020
Babies per 1,000 of the same sex in each published list. Breaks in a line are years with too few babies to be published.
Show the numbers
YearEngland & WalesScotlandNorthern IrelandIreland
2025#2,664 (8)———
2024#4,271 (4)———
2023———#660 (4)
2022#4,790 (3)——#657 (4)
2020#4,608 (3)—#334 (4)#741 (3)
2018———#572 (5)
2015#3,908 (4)——#615 (4)
2014#4,632 (3)—#281 (6)#468 (7)
2013#3,822 (4)—#398 (3)#534 (5)
2012#4,805 (3)——#310 (14)
2011#3,830 (4)——#435 (8)
2010#3,332 (5)—#339 (4)#448 (7)
2009#3,227 (5)——#322 (12)
2008——#266 (6)#287 (15)
2007#1,885 (10)#595 (3)#357 (3)#342 (9)

The tide so far

  • Peaked in England & Wales in 1999 at #1,130.
  • Rising over the last five years.
  • In the England & Wales records since the data begins in 1996.

How common is it?

about 1 in 34,000 baby boys in the published England & Wales list for 2025.

In a group of 1,000 children born that year, you would expect to meet fewer than 1. How we work this out.