Fer
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: obsolete spelling of hacer
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: CBG Familienamenbank, 2007
/feɾ/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Fer is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- CLChile≈1 in 8.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 11K
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 12Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 98 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Pronunciation spelling of for.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
How Fer is read
(measured from records)Fer is one spelling over 3 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.
- Spanish68%
obsolete spelling of hacer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hebrew11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Fer in Hebrew.
- English6.8%
Pronunciation spelling of for.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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 in the world
(measured from records)Fer 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Fer | 42 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | 1 | Fer | 36 |
| ES Spain | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 22 | Fer | 79 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Fer | 15 |
| GT Guatemala | #601 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Fer | 21 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 192 | 1 in 90K | 187 | — | 6 |
| CR Costa Rica | #514 | 2 | 1 in 2.5M | 2 | Fer | 24 |
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: INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)Fer is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romansh, alternative form of far (“to do; to make”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, alternative form of fǣr (“danger”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Welsh, soft mutation of ber (“short”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In non, first-person singular present active indicative of fara
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)- Fer Abrahamsb. 1951NLDutch television presenter and journalist
- Fer Gayb. 1983MXMexican actor and tv host of TV Azteca and Fox Sports
- Fer Riverob. 1992ESSpanish gymnast, singer
- Fer Serranob. 1997MXactor
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)32 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 106 | #18,218 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 22 | #79,809 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 22 | #78,058 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name Fer come from?
- Pronunciation spelling of for. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Fer?
- In Spanish /feɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Fer a male or female name?
- Fer is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- What does the name Fer mean?
- In Spanish, obsolete spelling of hacer
- In which country does Fer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.6 thousand people named Fer in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fer.
- How common is the name Fer?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 192 people named Fer, about 1 in 90 thousand residents.
- How common is Fer compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Fer is the 514th most common given name of 15,284 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ferThe 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, “Fer” — the 514th most common given name in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.