Ferro

See also: ferro

English

Etymology

• As an Italian, Spanish (occasionally Sephardic Jewish), Portuguese, Maltese, Galician surname, all from the noun ferro (“iron”).
• As an English surname, variant of Farrar.

Proper noun

Ferro (plural Ferros)

1. A surname.
2. El Hierro, the smallest island in the Canary Islands.

Derived terms

• Ferro meridian

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Ferro is the 4843^rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 7273 individuals. Ferro is most common among White (75.99%) and Hispanic/Latino (21.04%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Ferro”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 568.

Anagrams

• frore

Galician

Etymology

From ferro (“iron”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛro̝/

Proper noun

Ferro m

1. a surname

References

• “Ferro” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• “Ferro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.

Italian

Etymology

From the noun ferro (“iron”)

Proper noun

Ferro m or f by sense

1. a surname