Ferrari

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.

• Spanish:/feraɾi/○(machine-generated) model-generated
• Portuguese:/fɛxɐɾi/○(machine-generated) model-generated
• English:/fəˈɹɑːɹi/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
• Italian:/ferˈra.ri/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Ferrari is one spelling over 5 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.

• Spanish34%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Ferrari in Spanish.

• Portuguese22%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Ferrari in Portuguese.

• English17%

  Italian car

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• French15%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Ferrari in French.

• Italian7.3%

  a surname originating as an occupation

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  do latim ferrarius ‘ferreiro’; sobrenome profissional, ligado ao ancestral que trabalhava o ferro

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  de ferrarius ‘ferreiro’, profissão; variante italiana ligada a Ferraro

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  forma plural de Ferraro

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Ferrari is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Ferrári

• Croatian surname19 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, Italy, United States, Czechia

  Languages: Croatian, Polish, Czech

  Also written Ferari, Феррари, Ферари

• Lao surname14 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, United States, Italy

  Languages: Lao, Thai

  Also written เฟอร์รารี่, Ferrary, เฟอรารี่, เฟอร์รารี, Férràrì

62 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Ferrari is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Hungarian, Ferrari S.p.A., an Italian sports car manufacturer

  as a word·kaikki.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.

• Lodovico Ferrarib. 1522ITItalian mathematician (1522–1565)
• Enzo Ferrarib. 1898ITItalian racing driver and entrepreneur (1898–1988)
• Piero Ferrarib. 1945ITItalian engineer

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).

45 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 23 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Ferrari mean, and where does it come from?

a surname originating as an occupation Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

How do you pronounce Ferrari?

It depends on the language: in Spanish /feraɾi/; in Portuguese /fɛxɐɾi/; in English /fəˈɹɑːɹi/ (Wiktionary); in Italian /ferˈra.ri/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

Which countries have the most people with the surname Ferrari?

Mondonomo estimates about 82 thousand people named Ferrari in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ferrari. After it come Brazil, Argentina, France and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.

Where is Ferrari most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ferrari is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 482 people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Ferrari?

In Brazil, the national register counted 59,404 people named Ferrari, about 1 in 3.6 thousand residents.

How common is Ferrari compared with other names?

In Italy, Ferrari is the 288th most common surname of 502,013 surnames recorded there.