Ferrier

At the 2020 census, 3,144 Americans bore the surname Ferrier — 9,823rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 95,100.

By the numbers

People: 3,144
Rank: 9,823rd
How common: 1 in 95,100
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

As a Scottish and English surname, from French ferrier (“ironsmith”). Compare Farrar, Farrier.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 81.8%
Black, not Hispanic 8.1%
Hispanic or Latino 4.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Ferrier

Johan Ferrier (1910–2010)Dutch-Surinamese politician
Kathleen Ferrier (1912–1953)English contralto singer
David Ferrier (1843–1928)British neurologist and psychologist
Julie Ferrier (born 1971)French actress, comedian, dancer and theatre director
René Ferrier (1936–1998)French footballer
James Frederick Ferrier (1808–1864)Scottish philosopher
Margaret Ferrier (born 1960)Scottish politician

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

Surnames like Ferrier

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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.