Férrara

surname · Latin script

Férrara is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 24K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 11K
  • UYUruguay1 in 18K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

13,669 people, 2010

Sources
211 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ferrara in US United States, CH Switzerland, BE Belgium.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Italian

DERIVATI: Ferrarése e Ferrarési. / Diffuso in tutta l’Italia, con altissima frequenza in Lombardia e in Emilia-Romagna e, per Ferrara, nel Sud, é formato dal toponimo Ferrara e dal suo etnico Ferrarése. Ferrara, che é anche israelitico, pud avere alla base, in alcune regioni, altri toponimi formati dal nome comune ant. o dialettale ferrara o firrara (dal latino ferraria) “fucina, ferreria” (v. Ferréra).

Sources 4

  • Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Férrara counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Férrara is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States13,6691 in 24K14KFerrara147
AR Argentina2,5181 in 18K2.5K—1
BR Brazil1,1921 in 178K1.2K——
CH Switzerland7871 in 11K787Ferrara10
BE Belgium4391 in 27K492Ferrara28
UY Uruguay1931 in 18K193——

13,669 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Férrara under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Férrara have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Férrara, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ferrara.
Where is Férrara most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Férrara is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Férrara?
In the United States, the national register counted 13,669 people named Férrara in 2010, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Férrara”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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