Ferrell
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ferrell is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a different form of Farrell.
- USUnited States1 in 10K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 15K
- ITItaly≈1 in 25K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 466 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Iceland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a different form of Farrell
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ferrell 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Ferrell | 7 |
| US United States | #866 | 33,418 | 1 in 10K | 33K | Ferrell | 466 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Ferrell | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Ferrell | 111 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Ferrell | 16 |
| LB Lebanon | #411 | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Ferrell | 3 |
| IE Ireland | #981 | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Ferrell | 8 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | listed | Ferrell | 3 |
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. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Rick Ferrellb. 1905USAmerican baseball player and coach (1905–1995)
- Wes Ferrellb. 1908USbaseball player (1908–1976)
- Conchata Ferrellb. 1943USAmerican actress (1943–2020)
- Barbara Ferrellb. 1947USAmerican athletics competitor (born 1947)
- Tyra Ferrellb. 1962USAmerican actress
- Duane Ferrellb. 1965USAmerican basketball player
- Will Ferrellb. 1967USAmerican actor, comedian, screenwriter and producer (born 1967)
- Eddie Fb. 1968USnot in their usual nameAmerican record producer
- Yogi Ferrellb. 1993USAmerican basketball player (born 1993)
- Clelin Ferrellb. 1997USAmerican football player (born 1997)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 33K | #1,043 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 32K | #987 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 32K | #1,071 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Ferrell mean, and where does it come from?
- a different form of Farrell Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Ferrell have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 122 thousand people named Ferrell in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ferrell.
- How common is the name Ferrell?
- In the United States, the national register counted 33,418 people named Ferrell in 2010, about 1 in 10.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Ferrell compared with other names?
- In Lebanon, Ferrell is the 411th most common surname of 45,185 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ferrellThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Ferrell” — the 411th most common surname in Lebanon. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.