Ferrer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from OFr ferreor/ferour ‘worker in iron, smith’; first attested Henry le Ferrur 1196
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 26 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/feˈreɾ/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Ferrer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country, where it is the 82nd most common surname.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 900(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 943
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.1K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 358 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 900 (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from OFr ferreor/ferour ‘worker in iron, smith’; first attested Henry le Ferrur 1196
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Ferrer is found
(measured from records)Ferrer 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #82 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Ferrer | 110 |
| ES Spain | #61 | 53,051 | 1 in 943 | 53K | Ferrer | 233 |
| VE Venezuela | #162 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 900 | — | Ferrer | 83 |
| MX Mexico | #610 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | 308 | Ferrer | 183 |
| US United States | — | 17,057 | 1 in 20K | 18K | Ferrer | 358 |
| CO Colombia | #503 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | 2 | Ferrer | 107 |
| UY Uruguay | #196 | 3,003 | 1 in 1.1K | 3K | Ferrer | 53 |
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 — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)Ferrer is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, smith; Mallorca; other origin
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In English, a different form of Farrar
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In English, Jose Vicente, Puerto Rican actor,
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Italian, forma reduzida de Ferrero
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In English, producer, director
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)- Mel Ferrerb. 1917USAmerican actor, director and producer (1917–2008)
- Ibrahim Ferrerb. 1927CUCuban singer (1927–2005)
- Tessa Ferrerb. 1986USAmerican actress (born 1986)
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)42 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ferrer mean, and where does it come from?
- from OFr ferreor/ferour ‘worker in iron, smith’; first attested Henry le Ferrur 1196 Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Ferrer?
- In Spanish /feˈreɾ/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ferrer?
- Mondonomo estimates about 109 thousand people named Ferrer in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ferrer. After it come Spain, Venezuela, Mexico and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Ferrer?
- In Spain, the national register counted 53,051 people named Ferrer, about 1 in 943 residents.
- How common is Ferrer compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Ferrer is the 82nd most common surname of 876,464 surnames 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/ferrerThe 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, “Ferrer” — the 82nd most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.