Ferreiro
surname · Latin script
Meaning: blacksmith (iron forger)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/fereiɾo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ferreiro is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 2.7K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 4.2K
- ARArgentina1 in 13K
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)
- Record sources
- 165 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
11,835 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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)blacksmith (iron forger)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ferreiro 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 | #586 | 11,835 | 1 in 4.2K | 12K | Ferreiro | 140 |
| BR Brazil | — | 5,294 | 1 in 40K | 5.3K | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | #886 | 3,433 | 1 in 13K | 3.4K | Ferreiro | 79 |
| UY Uruguay | #362 | 1,268 | 1 in 2.7K | 1.3K | Ferreiro | 39 |
| US United States | — | 599 | 1 in 555K | 838 | Ferreiro | 165 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Ferreiro | 22 |
11,835 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)Ferreiro 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 Portuguese, smith; Lisbon; other origin
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In roa-opt, blacksmith (person who forges iron)
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)- Antonio López Ferreirob. 1837ESSpanish priest and historian (1837–1910)
- Celso Emilio Ferreirob. 1912ESGalician writer (1912-1979)
- Roberto Ferreirob. 1935ARArgentine footballer (1935-2017)
- Oscar Ferreirob. 1941ARArgentinian actor
- Mario Ferreirob. 1959PYParaguayan politician and journalist
- Xulio Ferreirob. 1974ESGalician politician
- Alberto Ferreirob. 1983ESSpanish actor
- Franco Ferreirob. 1984BRBrazilian tennis player
- Pablo Villarb. 1986ESnot in their usual nameSpanish football manager
- David Ferreirob. 1988ESSpanish footballer
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 12K | #466 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 12K | #466 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 5.3K | #2,158 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 3.4K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.3K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 838 | #29,943 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 681 | #31,986 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 599 | #37,229 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Ferreiro mean, and where does it come from?
- blacksmith (iron forger) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Ferreiro?
- In the etymology graph, Ferro is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Ferreiro?
- A machine transcription gives /fereiɾo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Ferreiro have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Ferreiro, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ferreiro.
- Where is Ferreiro most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ferreiro is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 2.7 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ferreiro?
- In Spain, the national register counted 11,835 people named Ferreiro, about 1 in 4.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Ferreiro compared with other names?
- In Spain, Ferreiro is the 586th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ferreiro?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ferreiroThe 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, “Ferreiro” — the 586th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.