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    The surname Ferranti

    An Italian surname, carried by 1,472 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex F653

    Ferranti: #18,676 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Ferranti #18,676, 1,472 people Ferranti: #18,676 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Ferranti #18,676, 1,472 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Ferranti is more common than 88.5% of them.

    Origin

    Italian origin

    Borrowed from Italian Ferranti.

    One of 798 Italian surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,472 people named Ferranti in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 209,746 Americans. That is up 6.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,383.

    #18,676
    rank among US surnames
    1,472
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.4%
    change since 2000 (was #18,437)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #18,671Hamaker1,473209,603
    #18,676Purpura1,472209,746
    #18,685Gettinger1,471209,888

    Who is named Ferranti

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    96% of people named Ferranti identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.2%
    • Two or more races 0.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Ferranti

    Ferranti has the Soundex code F653, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F653.

    Other Italian surnames

    All 798 Italian surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Ferranti come from?
    Borrowed from Italian Ferranti.
    How common is the surname Ferranti?
    1,472 people in the United States had the surname Ferranti in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 209,746 Americans. It ranked 18,676th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Ferranti?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Ferranti identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Ferranti getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,383 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,472 in 2010, up 6.4%.