Ferrar
surname · Latin script
Meaning: to add iron to
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/fɝˈɑɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ferrar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1M(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 1.7M
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 6.5M
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 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 4 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.0M (inferred from the name graph)
323 people, 2010
Reference-verified
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
to add iron to
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ferrar 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.
323 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2010; 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)
Ferrar 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 Galician, to horseshoe (to apply horseshoes to a horse or other hooved animal)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Asturian, to shoe (to put horseshoes on a horse)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, to horseshoe, to shoe a horse
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, Bibl
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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)
- Robert Ferrarb. 1500GBEnglish bishop
- John Ferrarb. 1588English merchant and politician (1588–1657)
- Nicholas Ferrarb. 1592GBEnglish scholar and courtier
- William Hugh Ferrarb. 1826Irish academic (1826–1871)
- David Ferrierb. 1843GBnot in their usual nameBritish neurologist and psychologist (1843–1928)
- James Walter Ferrierb. 1850not in their usual nameBritish writer
- William Moore Ferrarb. 1858AUIrish-born author (1823-1906), in Australia from around 1842
- Ada Ferrarb. 1867GBBritish actress (1864–1951)
- Beatrice Ferrarb. 1876GBBritish actress (1875–1958)
- Hartley T. Ferrarb. 1879IEIrish geologist, botanical collector and scientific collector (1879 - 1932)
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 9 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 373 | #52,289 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 358 | #60,717 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 323 | #62,045 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 125 | #53,430 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Ferrar mean, and where does it come from?
- to add iron to Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Ferrar?
- In the etymology graph, Fierro and Ferro are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Ferrar?
- A machine transcription gives /fɝˈɑɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ferrar have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 323 people named Ferrar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ferrar.
- Where is Ferrar most common?
- Ferrar is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.0 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ferrar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 323 people named Ferrar in 2010, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ferrarThe 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, “Ferrar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.