Ferman is a boy's name of Turkish origin meaning “ferryman.” In 2024 it was given to 5 boys in the United States.
Ferman at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Turkish
Meaning
“ferryman”
Also spelled
Fehrmann
About the name Ferman
Ferman belongs to the Turkish tradition. Its meaning — “ferryman” — is the sense carried by its Turkish roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page. It travels in a few spellings: Fehrmann.
In the United States, Ferman first appears in Social Security records in 1886. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #884 in 1886, and in 2024 5 babies received the name — 1,375 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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