Ferrando
surname · Latin script
Meaning: gerund of ferrar
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fɛɾando/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ferrando is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 2.4K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 6.1K
- ARArgentina1 in 16K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 178 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
8,235 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
gerund of ferrar
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ferrando 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #436 | 8,235 | 1 in 6.1K | 8.2K | Ferrando | 146 |
| AR Argentina | — | 2,810 | 1 in 16K | 2.8K | Ferrando | 67 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 32K | listed | Ferrando | 87 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 46K | 204 | Ferrando | 178 |
| UY Uruguay | #356 | 1,405 | 1 in 2.4K | 1.4K | Ferrando | 38 |
| SM San Marino | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Ferrando | 1 |
8,235 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 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)
Ferrando 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 Italian, ligado ao fr. Ferrand; da cor cinza-ferro do pelo de cavalos
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, gerund of ferrare
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)
- Giancarlo Ferrandob. 1939ITItalian film director and cinematographer
- Paolo Ferrandob. 1941ITItalian water polo player
- Carles Solà i Ferrandob. 1945ESSpanish politician
- Marco Ferrandob. 1954ITItalian politician
- César Ferrandob. 1959ESSpanish football player/manager
- Linda Ferrandob. 1966ITItalian female tennis player
- Rafael Ferrandob. 1966ESSpanish astronomer
- Jordi Solé Ferrandob. 1976ESCatalan politician
- Juan Ferrandob. 1981ESfootball coach
- Cristiana Ferrandob. 1995ITItalian female tennis 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)
Attested in 33 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 8.2K | #678 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8.2K | #678 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 2.8K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.4K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 308 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 204 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 201 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 187 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 154 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 136 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 124 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 106 | — |
Reference works 7
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Ferrando mean, and where does it come from?
- gerund of ferrar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ferrando?
- A machine transcription gives /fɛɾando/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Ferrando have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 8.2 thousand people named Ferrando, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ferrando.
- Where is Ferrando most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ferrando is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 2.4 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ferrando?
- In Spain, the national register counted 8,235 people named Ferrando, about 1 in 6.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Ferrando compared with other names?
- In Spain, Ferrando is the 436th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ferrando?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ferrandoThe 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, “Ferrando” — the 436th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.