The Ferris surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 20,703 people carried this name — #1,732 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 14,200 people counted. About the same as in 2000 (20,743).
What the name means
The meaning of the Ferris surname
English surname, from Norman Ferrers, from the toponymic Ferrières, from French fer (“iron”).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Ferris» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Ireland’s birth registers, 1890
Ireland registered 33 births for the Ferris name in 1890.
They were registered in all four provinces, most of all in Ulster. By the Registrar-General’s own method — births multiplied by 44.38 — that is about 1,500 people bearing the name in Ireland at the time. One of them was indexed under another spelling of the name. The Registrar-General’s note on the name: “Antrim.”
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born, 1890
Registrar-General for Ireland, «Special Report on Surnames in Ireland» (R. E. Matheson, 1894), births index of 1890 — public domain.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 156 people named Ferris.
32 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 18 départements, most often Gers.
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 the Nordic population registers
32 people named Ferris is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Ferris in American newspapers,
1908–1923.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 298,492 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Ferris,
with a public archive behind them.
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Pedro Ferris 1416–1478 · bishop -
Earl L. Ferris d. 1965 · writer
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Richard Ferris d. 1566 · barber surgeon
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Anne McFerran Ferris d. 1967
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Elizabeth Ferris d. 1907
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Thomas Ferris d. 1801
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Ferris.
- Ferrier 3,654 · U.S. census
- Ferriere 106 · U.S. census
- Ferries 233 · U.S. census
- Ferrigno 1,590 · U.S. census
- Ferrin 2,896 · U.S. census
- Ferrini 489 · U.S. census
- Ferro 7,273 · U.S. census
- Ferron 1,799 · U.S. census
- Ferroni 311 · U.S. census
- Ferrucci 1,038 · U.S. census
- Ferry 10,312 · U.S. census
- Ferstler 120 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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