as a Last Name
- 25,877
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Ferreira
Meaning & Origins
Galician and Portuguese: common topographic name for someone who lived by a forge or iron workings, from Latin ferraria ‘forge’, ‘iron working’.
| 1,395th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 25,877
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Rhode Island
- has the most people named Ferreira per capita
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