Ferrera

surname · Latin script

Meaning: smith; Rhodes, Smyrna, Buenos Aires; other origin (Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…)

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries

/fɛɾɛra/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated

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Ferrera is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 12,397 people, counted by IBGE.

  • HNHonduras≈1 in 960(inferred from the name graph)
  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 3.1K
  • ESSpain1 in 9.3K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

12,397 people

Record sources
186 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 960 (inferred from the name graph)

Honduras, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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How to pronounce Ferrera

  • Spanish:/fɛɾɛra/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

smith; Rhodes, Smyrna, Buenos Aires; other origin

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Ferrera is found

(measured from records)

Ferrera 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.

Where Ferrera is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—12,3971 in 17K12K—2
HN Honduras#137≈11,000 est.≈1 in 960—Ferrera42
ES Spain#8005,3841 in 9.3K5.4KFerrera128
PH Philippines—≈4,300 est.≈1 in 27K—Ferrera41
DO Dominican Republic#238≈3,700 est.≈1 in 3.1K—Ferrera28
UY Uruguay—2791 in 12K279—15

12,397 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Ferrera is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Fęrręrā, Fërrêra, Ferrerà

  • French surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Philippines, Belgium

    Also written Ferréra, Fèrrèrá, ̳f̳e̳r̳r̳e̳r̳a̳

44 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Ferrera is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, oriundo da cidade de Ferrera; do lat. ferraria

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In French, third-person singular simple future of ferrer

    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)
197019801990Ariella Ferrera, b. 1979America Ferrera, b. 1984Mauricio Pinilla, b. 1984

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)
FormalEstimado/a Ferrera,Dear Ferrera, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Ferrera,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ferrera mean, and where does it come from?
smith; Rhodes, Smyrna, Buenos Aires; other origin Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
How do you pronounce Ferrera?
In Spanish /fɛɾɛra/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Ferrera?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Ferrera, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Honduras, Spain, Philippines and Dominican Republic; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Ferrera?
In Brazil, the national register counted 12,397 people named Ferrera, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
How common is Ferrera compared with other names?
In Honduras, Ferrera is the 137th most common surname of 30,461 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Ferrera” — ranked 1144th in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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