Ferrera
surname · Latin script
Meaning: smith; Rhodes, Smyrna, Buenos Aires; other origin
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/fɛɾɛra/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ferrera is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- HNHonduras≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 3.3K
- ESSpain1 in 9.3K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 186 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
12,397 people
Highest-authority source
Honduras, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
smith; Rhodes, Smyrna, Buenos Aires; other origin
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ferrera 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 12,397 | 1 in 17K | 12K | — | 2 |
| HN Honduras | #137 | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Ferrera | 42 |
| ES Spain | #800 | 5,384 | 1 in 9.3K | 5.4K | Ferrera | 128 |
| CN China | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 306K | — | Ferrera | 2 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Ferrera | 41 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #238 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Ferrera | 28 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 279 | 1 in 12K | 279 | — | 15 |
12,397 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: 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); 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)
Ferrera 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, oriundo da cidade de Ferrera; do lat. ferraria
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In French, third-person singular simple future of ferrer
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)
- Francisco Ferrerab. 1794HNpresident of Honduras (1794-1851)
- Antonella Ferrerab. 1957ITItalian journalist and writer
- Carmelo Rivero Ferrerab. 1957ESSpanish writer, journalist
- Emilio Ferrerab. 1967BESpanish footballer
- Vincenzo Ferrerab. 1973ITItalian actor
- Ariella Ferrerab. 1979COColombian pornographic actress
- Yannick Ferrerab. 1980BEBelgian footballer and manager
- Dennis Ferrerab. 1980HNHonduran footballer
- America Ferrerab. 1984USAmerican actress (born 1984)
- Mauricio Pinillab. 1984CLnot in their usual nameChilean footballer (born 1984)
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 26 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 12K | #1,144 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 5.4K | #1,001 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 5.4K | #1,001 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 279 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Ferrera mean, and where does it come from?
- smith; Rhodes, Smyrna, Buenos Aires; other origin Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Ferrera?
- A machine transcription gives /fɛɾɛra/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Ferrera have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Ferrera, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ferrera?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 12,397 people named Ferrera, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is Ferrera compared with other names?
- In Honduras, Ferrera is the 137th most common surname of 30,461 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ferreraThe 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, “Ferrera” — the 137th most common surname in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.