Ferrer is a surname popular in the Catalan language.[3][6][7][8][9] Ferrer is an occupational surname for a blacksmith or ironworker[1] as described by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland- derived from the Latin word ferrum or ferrarius meaning iron, via the Catalan ferro, and thus shares a common occupational derivation with the most common English surname, Smith.[10] It is recorded in almost every country in Europe in the appropriate spelling, hence making it international in origin.[11] It is one of the most common Catalan surnames, ranked 35th in Catalonia.[4] The surname Ferrer is a Spanish variant of the surnames Farrar , which is a variant of the occupational name Ferror/Ferrour, Anglo Norman Ferrur,[12] Ferrier, Ferrers, and de Ferrers. According to Public Profiler, the surname Ferrer came to England from Spain[13]
The name Ferrer has been identified in the court records of Aragon and by the Holy Office of the Catholic Church of Spain as a Sephardic (Jewish) surname.[15] It would appear that there are at least two branches of the same family in Spain (one Jewish, one Catholic) or two separate families with the same name.[16]
The Ferrer YDNA surname project has only two males surnamed Ferrer and both belong to haplogroup R-M269 ( International Society of Genetic Genealogy (ISOGG) R1b1b2), known as the Western Atlantic Modal and the most common haplogroup in the western Atlantic region of Europe and the British Isles.[17]
One of the two has tested to basal SNP's to subclade R-372, which is a subclade of U106 and has most matches in Scandinavia.
In the Philippines, the first recorded surname of Ferrer dates to 1824, in Pangasinan.[18]
Statistically, it is a very uncommon surname in Great Britain. In the 1881 census there are 83 Ferrers recorded, with an average of 3 occurrences per million surnames. Also in 1881, it was ranked as the 19,011th most common surname. In the 1996 electoral register 185 Ferrers were recorded, with an average of 5 occurrences per million surnames, while it was ranked as the 17,724th most common surname.[19] Distribution: in 1881 the Northamptonpostal area had the highest rate of occurrences of Ferrer per million surnames. By 1998 the highest postal area per million was East Central London.[19]
Ethnicity of forenames of people bearing the surname Ferrer in Great Britain
In 2002 Northern Territory was the state or territory with the highest rate of the surname per million people, with a rate of 681% of the Australian average.[19]
Catalonia
According to IDESCAT, the Institute of Statistics of Catalonia, there were 15,850 persons with Ferrer as a first surname as of 1 January 2007, out of a population of 7,204,000, which means 0.22% of the population. This makes Ferrer the 35th most common surname in Catalonia.[20]
New Zealand
In 2002 Canterbury was the region with the highest rate of the surname per million people, with a rate of 434% of the national average.[19]
Philippines
As per the data collected by genealogy portal Forebears in 2014, there are approximately 98,478 Filipinos bearing the surname and Ilocos region has the highest rate of the surname with a frequency of 1:212[21]
United States
In 1990, Florida was the state with the highest rate of the surname per million people, with a rate of 414% of the national average.[19]
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