Ferraro meaning | Last name Ferraro origin

Family name Ferraro is the variant form of Phaire. Fare, or Phair, is a Gaelic personal name, and Mac Fare is still found in the Highlands. The family were introduced into Ireland temp. Oliver Cromwell, by Colonel Robert Phayre.

Lastname Ferraro is the form of Ferrer. See Ferrers - The Itin. de la Norman gives nine places called Ferrière, and four called Ferrières, in Normandy, M. de Gerville considers the name to have some relation to the ancient iron-trade of that province, which is probable, but this very ancient and noble family were farriers is an absurd notion, originating probably in some heraldric and feudal allusions. Many of the numerous coat-armours assigned to the name contain horse-shoes, and at Oakham, the chief town of Rutlandshire, an ancient barony of the family, a custom prevails to this day of demanding a horse-shoe of every peer of the realm who passes through the town, or a composition in money. Henry de Ferieres, ancestor of the old Earls of Derby, was a tenant in capite under the Conqueror, and held enormous estates in many counties, his caput baroniæ being Tutbury, in Staffordshire. Collins. A tradition makes the original Ferrers Master of the Horse to the Conqueror. The following account is given in B.L.G., though no authority is cited. The family derive from Walchelin, a Norman, whose son Henry assumed the name of Ferriers, a small town of Gastinors in France, otherwise called Ferrières, from the iron-mines with which that country abounded.

A variant of Ferrers. Of Ferrieres; i.e., Forges or Iron-works in Normandy.

Variant of Herrera. The worker in iron, a smith.

A worker in metals, a smith.

Family name is the form of Ferrara. One who came from Ferrara, i.e., Forum Allienni, a province in Italy.

Ferraro is a variant form of the Fair. The light-complexioned or handsome man; one who lived or worked at the fair or market.

The form of Fair. Allusive to complexion. So the Latin Flavus, the French Blond, Blondel, etc., and the Italian Biondi, &c.
It is often found in composition with other words, in English family names, as will be seen below. Sometimes the epithet alludes to a personal peculiarity, as in Fairhead, Fairbeard, and sometimes to a local one, asin Fairford, Fairholm, Fairbank, Fairbridge, Fairburn.

Lastname is a variant of Phare. See Phaire - Fare, or Phair, is a Gaelic personal name, and Mac Fare is still found in the Highlands. The family were introduced into Ireland temp. Oliver Cromwell, by Colonel Robert Phayre.