Ferney is used as a family name or surname in many languages. It is 6 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Ferney
No. of characters: 6
Origin: Unknown
Meaning: The name is focused in the Territoire de Belfort. Related forms: Fernet (80, 21) Fernex (74) Fernez (59, 90), Fernette (70). This should be in most cases a place name, variant forms such as metathesis Frénet, Freney (= wood ash). Another solution proposed by M.-T. Morlet for Fernet: diminutive of Ferron (= blacksmith, ironmonger).

How popular is Ferney?

Ferney is ranked 263473 on our list.

As per 2010 US census, number of Ferneies plummeted by 21.85792 per cent to 143 since 2000 and slipped by 27895 spots and ranked at 120901. The last name was found in around 0 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 90.91 96.72
Hispanic or Latino 5.59 0
Ferney is not so popular last name but still a prevalent surname concentrated mainly in Colombia which may be its originating country too. Around 1189 people have been found who wears Ferney as their family name. Ferney have bearers in many countries around the world. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
153,990 Australia7
20,595 China2
52,939 United Arab Emirates2
18,969 Wales1
81,201 Switzerland1
58,885 Poland1
12,741 Ecuador1
153,416 Italy1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
144,062 Canada16
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
64,420 England54
Countries with hundreds of Ferney:
3,635 Colombia576
37,175 France269
89,754 United States258

Immigrants to US

From Ireland

Workman John Ferney from Ireland aboard the Loodianah from Liverpool during the Irish famine. He is registered to be 20 years old when he arrived in USA on October 31, 1848. Ann Ferney, aged 17, Daniel Ferney, aged 30, Bridget Ferney, aged 27, Farmer Owen Ferney, Mrs Ferney (30) House Keeper, 30 years old William Ferney, Bridget Ferney, aged 6, Thomas Ferney, aged 5, and 5 other Ferney around 46.15% of whom were workman while others worked as farmer migrated to US.

Comments

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Nathalie Gigliotti
The origin of the name is Indo-European name is that of a locality of the department ain; it indicates family origin the etymology of the name comes from the agglutination name of Gallo-Roman person ferenius and suffix acum which means the land of ferenius - the savagely beast.

Ferney Namesakes

  • Alice Ferney, Writer
  • Frédéric Ferney, Author
  • Liam Ferney, Poet
  • Didier Ferney, Actor
  • Larry Ferney, Actor
  • Brian Ferneyhough, Composer
  • Brian Ferneyhough, Composer

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