Ferro

See also: ferro

English

Etymology

Proper noun

Ferro (plural Ferros)

  1. A surname from Italian.
  2. El Hierro, the smallest island in the Canary Islands, Spain.

Derived terms

Statistics

  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Ferro is the 4843rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 7273 individuals. Ferro is most common among White (75.99%) and Hispanic/Latino (21.04%) individuals.

Further reading

Anagrams

Galician

Etymology

From ferro (iron).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɛro̝/

Proper noun

Ferro m

  1. a surname

References

  • Ferro” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (20062018) “Ferro”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega


Italian

Etymology

From the noun ferro (iron)

Proper noun

Ferro m or f by sense

  1. a surname