Ferino
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: beastly (behaving like a beast; cruel or savage)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/fɨɾinu/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Ferino is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 167K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 820Kfew records
- MXMexico≈1 in 830Kfew records
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
- 49 (measured from records)
- 1 in 167K (inferred from the name graph)
1,266 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)beastly (behaving like a beast; cruel or savage)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Ferino is read
(measured from records)Ferino is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English36%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ferino in English.
- Portuguese30%
beastly (behaving like a beast; cruel or savage)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish21%
wild
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ferino 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 | 1,266 | 1 in 167K | 1.3K | Ferino | 49 |
| IT Italy | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 302K | listed | Ferino | 7 |
| MX Mexico | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 832K | — | Ferino | 19 |
| PH Philippines | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 824K | — | Ferino | 11 |
| US United States | 139 | 1 in 2.4M | 144 | Ferino | 27 |
| AR Argentina | 41 | 1 in 1.1M | 41 | Ferino | 17 |
1,266 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Ferino is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of ferīnus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, wild, feral
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Pierre Marie Barthélemy Ferinob. 1747FRFrench general (1747-1816)
- Sylvia Ferino-Pagdenb. 1949ITItalian art historian
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.3K | #7,464 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 144 | #125,089 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 143 | #113,519 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 139 | #123,796 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 41 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ferino mean, and where does it come from?
- beastly (behaving like a beast; cruel or savage) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ferino?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /fɨɾinu/; in Spanish /feɾino/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Ferino have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Ferino, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ferino.
- Where is Ferino most common?
- Ferino is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 167 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ferino?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,266 people named Ferino, about 1 in 167 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ferinoThe 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, “Ferino”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.