Ferraris
surname · Latin script
Meaning: forma latinizada de Ferrari (Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/fɛɾaris/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Ferraris is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country: 2,615 people, counted by RENAPER.
- ARArgentina1 in 17K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 47K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 117K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 181 (measured from records)
- 1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
2,615 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Ferraris
- Spanish:/fɛɾaris/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Italian:/ferˈra.ris/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)forma latinizada de Ferrari
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Ferraris is read
(measured from records)Ferraris is one spelling over 4 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.
- Spanish48%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ferraris in Spanish.
- English26%
Galileo, Italian scientist
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- French11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ferraris in French.
- Italian8.6%
forma latinizada de Ferrari
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Variante di Ferrari
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where the surname Ferraris is found
(measured from records)Ferraris 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | 2,615 | 1 in 17K | 2.6K | — | 2 |
| US United States | 573 | 1 in 581K | 600 | Ferraris | 181 |
| BR Brazil | 240 | 1 in 882K | 240 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 80 | 1 in 625K | 80 | Ferraris | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | 72 | 1 in 117K | 72 | Ferraris | 6 |
| UY Uruguay | 72 | 1 in 47K | 72 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 31 | 1 in 180K | 31 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 30 | 1 in 391K | 30 | — | 3 |
2,615 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Attilio Ferrarisb. 1904ITItalian footballer (1904-1947)
- Pietro Ferrarisb. 1912ITItalian footballer (1912-1991)
- Maurizio Ferrarisb. 1956ITItalian philosopher
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)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ferraris mean, and where does it come from?
- forma latinizada de Ferrari Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Ferraris?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /fɛɾaris/; in Italian /ferˈra.ris/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ferraris?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 2.6 thousand people named Ferraris, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Brazil, Spain and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Ferraris most common?
- Ferraris is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 17 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ferraris?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 2,615 people named Ferraris, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ferraris?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ferrarisThe 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, “Ferraris”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.