The name Ford was originally an English surname from the word ‘ford’ for a shallow river crossing.
Ford is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Ford isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Ford ranks 597. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Ford. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Ford.
The name Ford was originally an English surname from the word ‘ford’ for a shallow river crossing.
As a given name,... Ford is in use since at least the early 19th century.
You may not know anyone named Ford, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 39 states are home to men and boys named Ford. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Ford living in one state or another. If your name is Ford and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Utah, which has the most people named Ford relative to the population, you still have to ask 11,638 men and boys their names before you hear Ford as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter F is quite rare as a first letter for boys' names: only 1.5% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an F. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With four letters, the name Ford is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 1.5% of all boys' names begin with an F, this initial letter is significantly less common than the other letters on average. However, individual boys' names with F are really popular, the most common currently being Frank.
If your name is Ford and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Ford, you can simply say:
Fox
Orange
Rocket
Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ford
Ford
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
F
O
R
D
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
F
O
R
D
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Ford sounds like this:
