Meaning and history
From the Irish surname Ó Fearghail, an Anglicized form derived from the given name Fearghal.
20052005: no US SSA record for this spelling
2006: 22 births, rank #4,223
2007: 16 births, rank #5,434
2008: 19 births, rank #4,901
2009: 12 births, rank #6,802
20102010: 12 births, rank #6,698
2011: 16 births, rank #5,433
2012: 12 births, rank #6,626
2013: 7 births, rank #9,655
2014: 11 births, rank #7,048
20152015: 11 births, rank #7,066
2016: 10 births, rank #7,605
2017: 7 births, rank #9,696
2018: 13 births, rank #6,345
2019: 5 births, rank #12,145
20202020: 7 births, rank #9,554
2021: 7 births, rank #9,714
2022: 8 births, rank #8,990
2023: 6 births, rank #10,821
20242024: 5 births, rank #12,349
Farrell moved from #894 to #959 for boys between 1965 and 1967. Its highest annual birth count came in 1935, with 96 births.