Ferro

6,685 people in the United States were counted with the surname Ferro in the 2020 census, making it the 5,082nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 44,700.

By the numbers

People: 6,685
Rank: 5,082nd
How common: 1 in 44,700
Per 100,000: 2.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Italian

As an Italian, Spanish (occasionally Sephardic Jewish), Portuguese, Maltese, Galician surname, all from the noun ferro (“iron”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 72.4%
Hispanic or Latino 23.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Ferro

Tiziano Ferro (born 1980)Italian singer
Scipione del Ferro (1465–1526)Italian mathematician
Marc Ferro (1924–2021)French historian
Fiona Ferro (born 1997)French tennis player
Ferro (born 1997)Portuguese footballer
Vito Cascio Ferro (1862–1943)member of the Sicilian Mafia
Andrea Ferro (born 1973)Italian singer
Turi Ferro (1921–2001)Italian actor

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

Surnames like Ferro

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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.