Sferra
surname · Latin script
Meaning: exhausted horseshoe; the old horseshoe after it is removed from the hoof of a horse
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈsfɛɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sferra is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- ITItaly
- ARArgentina
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
exhausted horseshoe; the old horseshoe after it is removed from the hoof of a horse
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Sferra is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In scn, broken old exhausted horseshoe after it is taken from the hoof of the horse
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nap, old rusty knife, especially if without handle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Maltese, to break loose
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)
- Fabrizio Sferrab. 1959ITItalian drummer
- Francesco Sferrab. 1965ITItalian sanskritist (1965-)
- Daniel SferraUSAmerican politician
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 13 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 391 | #56,436 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 389 | #53,204 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 375 | #52,077 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 118 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 114 | #57,408 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 8 | #72,019 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #384,381 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #216,226 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Sferra mean, and where does it come from?
- exhausted horseshoe; the old horseshoe after it is removed from the hoof of a horse Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sferra?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈsfɛɹə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sferra have the most bearers?
- Sferra is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sferraThe 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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sferra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.