# Ferro (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/ferro/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Italian.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Italian |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 7,273 |
| US rank (2010) | 4,843 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 42,451 people |
| Change since 2000 | +5.8% (6,872 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As an Italian, Spanish (occasionally Sephardic Jewish), Portuguese, Maltese, Galician surname, all from the noun ferro (“iron”). * As an English surname, variant of Farrar.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Ferro in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 76% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.9% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 21% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.2% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.1% |
| Two or more races | 0.8% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Ferro in the United States and Argentina.

## People named Ferro

- Pablo Ferro, American artist (1935–2018)
- Lorenzo Ferro, Argentine actor and singer (1998-)

## Similar surnames

Fierro, Farrow, Ferry, Fehr, Ferri, Ferree, Furrow, Fear, Fiero, Fero, Fry, Frye.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.