Ferra
surname · Latin script
Meaning: third-person singular past historic of ferrer
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/feɾra/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ferra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 56K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 80K
- USUnited States1 in 370K
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)
- Sources
- 105 (measured from records)
- 1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
1,030 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
third-person singular past historic of ferrer
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ferra 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 | 1,030 | 1 in 206K | 1K | Ferra | 48 |
| US United States | 898 | 1 in 370K | 898 | Ferra | 105 |
| ES Spain | 890 | 1 in 56K | 890 | Ferra | 69 |
| IT Italy | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 93K | listed | Ferra | 15 |
| AR Argentina | 568 | 1 in 80K | 568 | Ferra | 39 |
| UY Uruguay | 168 | 1 in 20K | 168 | Ferra | 16 |
| PT Portugal | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Ferra | 31 |
1,030 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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)
Ferra 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, nominative/accusative/vocative plural of ferrum
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, iron rim or tyre of a cart's wheel
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)
- Miquel Mas Ferràb. 1950ESSpanish writer
- Olivier Ferrab. 1967FRFrench comics artist
- Bartłomiej FerraPLPolish life sciences researcher
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)
Attested in 33 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1K | #9,021 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 898 | #27,002 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 891 | #28,469 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 890 | #4,900 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 890 | #4,900 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 837 | #27,176 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 568 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 168 | — |
| 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 3
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- How do you pronounce Ferra?
- A machine transcription gives /feɾra/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Ferra mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person singular past historic of ferrer Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Ferra have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Ferra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ferra.
- Where is Ferra most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ferra is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 20 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ferra?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,030 people named Ferra, about 1 in 206 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ferraThe 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, “Ferra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.