Ferreira

Ferreira is the 1,183rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 29,131 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 10,300.

By the numbers

People: 29,131
Rank: 1,183rd
How common: 1 in 10,300
Per 100,000: 9.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Portuguese

Borrowed from Portuguese Ferreira.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Ferreira described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 65.0%
Hispanic or Latino 25.4%
Black, not Hispanic 3.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Ferreira

Paulo Ferreira (born 1979)Portuguese footballer
Barbie Ferreira (born 1996)American model and actress
Sky Ferreira (born 1992)American singer-songwriter, model, and actress
Manuel Ferreira (1905–1983)Argentine footballer
Wayne Ferreira (born 1971)South African tennis player
Louis Ferreira (born 1966)Portuguese-Canadian actor
Luis de Souza Ferreira (1908–2008)Peruvian footballer
Jesús Ferreira (born 2000)American soccer player

People named Ferreira with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Ferreira

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.