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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian (northwest and Liguria) : variant of Ferrara.
  • Italian : habitational name from various places named with this word: Ferrera Cenisio (now Moncenisio) in Piemonte; and Ferrera di Varese and Ferrera Erbognone, both in Lombardy.
  • Spanish and Catalan : topographic name for someone who lived near a forge or ironworks, from Latin ferraria.

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