Fera
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Initialism of Federal Emergency Relief Administration
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/feɾa/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Fera is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 28Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 52K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 52K
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 218 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Initialism of Federal Emergency Relief Administration.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Fera is read
(measured from records)Fera is one spelling over 4 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.
- English54%
Initialism of Federal Emergency Relief Administration.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish8.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Fera in Spanish.
- French6.7%
third-person singular future of faire
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Indonesian5.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Fera in Indonesian.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Fera 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 52K | listed | — | 3 |
| IT Italy | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 28K | listed | Fera | 34 |
| US United States | 917 | 1 in 363K | 974 | Fera | 218 |
| CA Canada | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 82K | 1 | Fera | 82 |
| FR France | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 206K | 39 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 161 | 1 in 52K | 161 | Fera | 8 |
| NO Norway | 90 | 1 in 61K | 90 | — | 4 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the xinhua-italian-manual register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Fera 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 Portuguese, wild animal, beast
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
In Portuguese, beast (non-human animal)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, companion, associate
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In got, romanization of 𐍆𐌴𐍂𐌰
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)- Adolph Christian Ferab. 1877USAmerican cartoonist
- Charlotte Ferab. 1905DEGerman politician (1905-1998)
- Cesare Ferab. 1922ITItalian architect (1922-1995)
- Maria Cannatà Ferab. 1949ITItalian hellenist (born 1949)
- Vincenzo Ferab. 1949ITItalian philologist
- Joy Ferab. 1950CACanadian rower
- Rick Ferab. 1964CACanadian ice hockey player
- Mihaela Ferab. 1970RORomanian alpine skier
- Anthony Ferab. 1991USAmerican football player
- Lesley Ferab. 2000USAmerican actress
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)35 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 974 | #24,146 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 950 | #26,962 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 917 | #26,576 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 161 | #7,506 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 90 | #16,600 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 47 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 39 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 39 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 31 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 13 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Fera mean, and where does it come from?
- Initialism of Federal Emergency Relief Administration. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Fera?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /feɾa/; in Indonesian /fˈɛra/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Fera have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.4 thousand people named Fera in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Fera?
- In the United States, the national register counted 917 people named Fera in 2010, about 1 in 363 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Fera?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/feraThe 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, “Fera”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.