Ferrer is a common

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in Catalan, ranked 35th in

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and was listed as 1,648th most common surname in the world.

Origin

Ferrer is a

popular in the Catalan language.Fr. S.M.Hoga
"Saint Vincent Ferrer, O.P."
. Longmans, Green and Co, London: 1911. Pp. 1–2 Ferrer is an occupational surname for a blacksmith or ironworker 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,

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. It is recorded in almost every country in Europe in the appropriate spelling, hence making it international in origin. It is one of the most common Catalan surnames, ranked 35th in

. The surname Ferrer is a Spanish variant of the surnames '' Farrar'' , which is a variant of the occupational name Ferror/Ferrour, Anglo Norman Ferrur, Ferrier, Ferrers, and de Ferrers. According to Public Profiler, the surname Ferrer came to England from Spain The English surname ''Ferrers'' is originally Norman and unlike ''Ferrer'' or ''Farrar'' it is a locational name. See for instance, the lineage of the Baron Ferrers of Groby, deriving, in this instance, from the place name Ferrières-Saint-Hilaire, Walchelin de Ferrières (de Ferrers) who arrived in

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with

William the Conqueror William the Conqueror (Bates ''William the Conqueror'' p. 33– 9 September 1087), sometimes called William the Bastard, was the first Norman king of England (as William I), reigning from 1066 until his death. A descendant of Rollo, he was D ...

. The Ferrers family held the earldom of Derby and although the main line died out, some descendants in England still bear the name. 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. 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. 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. 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 Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a tot ...

, the first recorded surname of Ferrer dates to 1824, in Pangasinan.

Analysis

Great Britain

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.Names Public Profiler
Retrieved 2019-02-31 Distribution: in 1881 the

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postal area had the highest rate of occurrences of ''Ferrer'' per million surnames. By 1998 the highest postal area per million was East Central London.

Ethnicity of forenames of people bearing the surname Ferrer in Great Britain

Source:Public Profiler World Names website.

Comparison between Great Britain and the World (per million occurrences of the surname)

Source: Public Profiler World Names website.

Australia

In 2002

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was the state or territory with the highest rate of the surname per million people, with a rate of 681% of the Australian average.

Catalonia

According to IDESCAT, the Institute of Statistics of

, 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.

New Zealand

In 2002

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was the

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with the highest rate of the surname per million people, with a rate of 434% of the national average.

Philippines

As per the data collected by genealogy portal Forebears in 2014, there are approximately 98,478

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bearing the surname and

Ilocos region The Ilocos Region (; ; ), designated as Region I, is an Region of the Philippines, administrative region of the Philippines. Located in the northwestern section of Luzon, it is bordered by the Cordillera Administrative Region to the east, the Ca ...

has the highest rate of the surname with a frequency of 1:212

United States

In 1990,

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was the

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with the highest rate of the surname per million people, with a rate of 414% of the national average.

Footnotes

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