The Ferrario surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 452 people carried this name — #44,738 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 588,200 people counted.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
228 people named Ferrario live in Switzerland.
They live in 11 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Ticino.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 102 people named Ferrario.
24 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 24 départements, most often Paris.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In print
Ferrario in American newspapers,
1903–1948.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 665 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Ferrario,
with a public archive behind them.
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Federico Ferrario 1714–1802 · painter -
Giulio Ferrario 1767–1847 · printer -
Giuseppe Ferrario 1802–1870 · physician -
Carlo Ferrario 1833–1907 · architect -
Francesco Ferrario 1875–1946
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 108 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Ferrario.
- Ferranti 1,383 · U.S. census
- Ferrara 13,357 · U.S. census
- Ferrare 282 · U.S. census
- Ferrarese 159 · U.S. census
- Ferrari 7,759 · U.S. census
- Ferrarini 260 · U.S. census
- Ferraris 528 · U.S. census
- Ferraro 12,090 · U.S. census
- Ferras 154 · U.S. census
- Ferrato 203 · U.S. census
- Ferraz 445 · U.S. census
- Ferrazzi 116 · U.S. census
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