Ferr
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2000
Ferr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 160K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 290Kfew records
- AUAustralia≈1 in 290Kfew 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.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 117 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 124K (inferred from the name graph)
≈980 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Ferr is found
(measured from records)Ferr 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 347K | 108 | Ferr | 117 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 165K | listed | — | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 289K | — | Ferr | 19 |
| IT Italy | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 269K | — | Ferr | 12 |
| ES Spain | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 261K | — | Ferr | 8 |
| BR Brazil | 165 | 1 in 1.3M | 165 | — | 3 |
| IE Ireland | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 124K | — | Ferr | 1 |
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 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)Ferr is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In non, second-person/third-person singular present indicative active of fara
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sga, comparative degree of maith: better, best
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kw, mixed mutation of berr
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Albanian, hell, heck
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ferr?
- Mondonomo estimates about 979 people named Ferr in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ferr. After it come Algeria, United Kingdom, Italy and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Ferr?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 165 people named Ferr, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Ferr?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ferrThe 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, “Ferr” — ranked 141788th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.