Fern (name)
Fern is an English topographic name from the Old English fearn. It refers to someone who lives among ferns. The name is used as a given name and a surname. The name is in use primarily in English-speaking countries. It has been in use since the 1800s and has also occasionally been in use for boys, though it is primarily a feminine name. There were 133 newborn American girls named Fern in 2020, 140 in 2021, 148 in 2022, and 156 in 2023. There were 26 newborn girls given the name in Canada in 2021.
Notable people with the name Fern or Ferns include:
Given name
- Fern Andra, American actress
- Fern Battaglia, American baseball player
- Fern Bell, American baseball player
- Fern Brady, Scottish comedian
- Fern Britton, English television presenter
- Fern G. Z. Carr, Canadian poet
- Fern Schumer Chapman, American journalist
- Fern Coppedge, American painter
- Fern Cunningham, American sculptor
- Fern Deacon, English actress
- Fern Emmett, American film actress
- Fern Ferguson, American baseball player
- Fern Fitzgerald, American actress
- Fern Gauthier, Canadian ice hockey player
- Fern Headley, American ice hockey player
- Fern Hobbs, American attorney
- Fern Holland, American lawyer
- Fern Hunt, American mathematician
- Fern Jones, American gospel singer
- Fern Kinney, American singer
- Fern Kupfer, American author
- Fern LeBlanc, French professional ice hockey player
- Fern Majeau, French ice hockey player
- Fern Mallis, American consultant
- Fern Michaels, American author
- Fern Hubbard Orme, American politician
- Fern Perreault, French ice hockey player
- Fern Persons, American film actress
- Fern Rahmel, Canadian writer
- Fern Riddell, British historian
- Fern Rivard, Canadian ice hockey player
- Fern Flanagan Saddler, American judge
- Fern Sawyer, American cowgirl
- Fern Shaffer, American painter
- Fern Shubert, Republican political figure
- Fern Shumate, American writer
- Fern Shollenberger, American baseball player
- Fern M. Smith, American judge
- Fern Blodgett Sunde, Canadian wireless radio operator
- Fern Sutherland, New Zealand actress
- Fern Villeneuve, Canadian aviator
- Fern Whelan, English footballer
Stage name
- Fern (rapper), Puerto Rican rapper
Surname
- Charlie Fern, American speechwriter and journalist
- Cody Fern, Australian actor, screenwriter
- Fanny Fern, pseudonym of American writer Sara Willis Parton
- Fritzi Fern, motion picture actress from Akron, Ohio
- George Fern, English footballer
- Harold Fern, British president of swimming's world governing body FINA
- Henry Ferne, Chaplain Extraordinary to Charles I
- Joseph J. Fern, first Mayor of Honolulu
- Rodney Fern, English footballer
- Ronald Ferns, English illustrator, designer, cartoonist and surrealist painter
- Tan Paey Fern, Singaporean table tennis player
- Tom Fern, English footballer
Fictional characters
- Fern Arable, from E.B. White's Charlotte's Web
- Fern the Green Fairy, one of The Rainbow Fairies from the Rainbow Magic book franchise
- Fern Martin from the film The Hard Man
- Fern Mayo/Vylette from Jawbreaker, 1998 black comedy film
- Fern Walters, from the children's book and animated television series Arthur
- Fern, from Magical × Miracle
- Fearne Calloway, from Critical Role Season 3.
- Fern, from the animated series Adventure Time
- Fern from Frieren
- Fern, a fairy from Pixie Hollow Games voiced by Zendaya
- Fern, the changeling protagonist of video game Rusted Moss