Fereira
surname · Latin script
Meaning: smith (Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Grenada, 2025
/feɾeiɾa/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Fereira is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 151,405 people, counted by IBGE.
- BRBrazil1 in 1.4K(measured from records)
- GDGrenada1 in 5.4K
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 11K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 95 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
151,405 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Fereira
- Spanish:/feɾeiɾa/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Portuguese:/fɛɾejɾɐ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)smith
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Where the surname Fereira is found
(measured from records)Fereira 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 151,405 | 1 in 1.4K | 151K | Fereira | 83 |
| VE Venezuela | #883 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Fereira | 36 |
| FR France | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 203K | 17 | — | 2 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Fereira | 34 |
| US United States | — | 278 | 1 in 1.2M | 351 | Fereira | 95 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 48 | 1 in 71K | 48 | Fereira | 8 |
| GD Grenada | — | 21 | 1 in 5.4K | 21 | — | — |
| TL Timor-Leste | #438 | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 247K | — | Fereira | 2 |
151,405 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jean-Paul Fereirab. 1971FRFrench politician
- Gavin FereiraIndian field hockey player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fereira mean, and where does it come from?
- smith Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Fereira?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /feɾeiɾa/; in Portuguese /fɛɾejɾɐ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Fereira?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 151 thousand people named Fereira, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fereira. After it come Venezuela, France, Portugal and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Fereira most common?
- Fereira is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Fereira?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 151,405 people named Fereira, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Fereira compared with other names?
- In Timor-Leste, Fereira is the 438th most common surname of 2,973 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fereiraThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Fereira” — ranked 211th in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.