Ferry

At the 2020 census, 9,655 Americans bore the surname Ferry — 3,596th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 31,000.

By the numbers

People: 9,655
Rank: 3,596th
How common: 1 in 31,000
Per 100,000: 3.2

Where the name comes from

A metonymic occupational surname for a ferryman or a topographic surname for someone who lived by a ferry crossing, from Middle English feri (“ferry”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Black, not Hispanic 1.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Ferry

Bryan Ferry (born 1945)British singer
Jules Ferry (1832–1893)French politician
Björn Ferry (born 1978)Swedish biathlete
Luc Ferry (born 1951)French politician and philosopher
Edward Ferry (1941–2023)American rower
Danny Ferry (born 1966)American basketball player
Catherine Ferry (born 1953)French singer
Elisha P. Ferry (1825–1895)American politician

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

Surnames like Ferry

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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.