Fern

English
"plant name"

Fern Origin and Meaning

The name Fern is a girl's name meaning "plant name".

Of all the botanicals, Fern has been one of the slowest to move back from the front parlor into the nursery, despite the appealing girl character in the children's classic Charlotte's Web. Fern was most popular from the turn of the last century through the 1940s, reaching a high of #152 in 1916. We can certainly see her rejoining the long list of popular greenery names.

Reality TV stars Jessa Duggar and Ben Seewald recently named a daughter Fern, which could easily give it a boost.

# 821 in the US

Fern Rank in US Top 1000

# 449 on Nameberry

Fern Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Fern Popularity

Famous People Named Fern

  • Fern Margaret Price Britton
    English TV presenter
  • Fern Michaels (born Mary Ruth Kuczkir)
    American romance novelist
  • Fern Fitzgerald
    American actress
  • Fern Emmett
    American actress
  • Fern Isabel Coppedge
    American painter
  • Fern Sutherland
    New Zealand actress

Fern in Pop Culture

  • Fern Arable
    a character from book/film "Charlotte's Web"
  • Fern
    Finn's doppelganger made of grass from Adventure Time
  • Fern
    the Green Fairy from the "Rainbow Fairies" book series
  • Fern Mayo
    a character from the film "Jawbreaker"
  • Fern
    a character from an episode of "Sex and The City"
  • Fern Vance Brantley
    a character from "A woman called Fancy" by Frank Yerby
  • Fern
    Kensi's nickname from Deeks on "NCIS: Los Angeles"
  • Fern
    character in the book "Goodbye Amanda The Good"
  • Fern
    character in the "St Clare" book series by Enid Blyton
  • Fern Walters
    a character from TV's "Arthur"
  • "Fern Gully
    " animated movie