The surname Ferron
A surname, carried by 1,799 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex F650
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,799 people named Ferron in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 171,621 Americans. That is up 2.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,764.
#16,098
rank among US surnames
1,799
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+2%
change since 2000 (was #15,293)
| Rank | Surname | People | 1 in |
|---|---|---|---|
| #16,098 | Ferron | 1,799 | 171,621 |
| #16,100 | Coughlan | 1,798 | 171,716 |
Who is named Ferron
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
75% of people named Ferron identified as white (not Hispanic), 16% as Black (not Hispanic) and 6.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 75%
- Black (not Hispanic) 16%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6.2%
- Two or more races 1.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Ferron has the Soundex code F650, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F650.
Questions
- How common is the surname Ferron?
- 1,799 people in the United States had the surname Ferron in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 171,621 Americans. It ranked 16,098th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Ferron?
- In the 2010 Census, 75% of people named Ferron identified as white (not Hispanic), and 16% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Ferron getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,764 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,799 in 2010, up 2.0%.