Ferry is used as a family name or surname in United States. It is 5 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Ferry
No. of characters: 5
Origin: United States
Meaning: Personal name of Germanic origin, variant of Frederick first name: Fridric (frid peace = + = ric powerful). Surname widespread in Lorraine (54, 88).

How popular is Ferry?

Ferry is common in United States.

Ferry is ranked 15192 on our list.

As per 2010 US census, number of Ferries plummeted by 7.846292 per cent to 10312 since 2000 and slipped by 507 spots and ranked at 3467. The last name was found in around 35 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 91.95 91.4
Black 3.26 4.92
Hispanic or Latino 2.18 1.52
Others 1.58 1.22
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.68 0.6
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.35 0.35
Ferry is quite popular family name mostly used in United States while Northern Ireland is ahead in terms of density. Around 34642 people have been found who wears Ferry as their family name. Ferry is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
5,892 Senegal9
701,083 India8
88,966 Czech Republic7
2,135 Rwanda3
23,165 Romania3
4,096 Dominican Republic3
35,184 Poland3
33,202 Saudi Arabia2
12,844 Pakistan2
35,969 Denmark2
10,858 Tunisia2
20,595 China2
8,995 Uganda2
20,837 Venezuela2
4,086 Angola2
4,231 Jamaica2
18,035 Egypt2
6,353 Panama2
34,681 Norway2
23,344 Austria2
993 Guernsey2
34,572 Israel2
1,169 New Caledonia2
17,236 Ghana1
28,746 Algeria1
90,903 Moldova1
9,926 Ivory Coast1
1,970 Grenada1
15,162 Costa Rica1
2,057 Isle of Man1
29,046 Japan1
37,779 Serbia1
692 Guinea1
16,640 Hong Kong1
42,479 Greece1
134,667 Zimbabwe1
26,040 Trinidad and Tobago1
7,191 Afghanistan1
23,434 Burkina Faso1
7,314 Bolivia1
6,149 Ethiopia1
7,895 South Korea1
11,923 Slovenia1
7,110 Bosnia1
5,872 Namibia1
3,275 Nepal1
3,993 El Salvador1
2,309 Monaco1
8,268 Mauritius1
5,553 Taiwan1
24,460 Armenia1
199,150 Kazakhstan1
17,575 Kuwait1
16,228 Bulgaria1
16,073 Latvia1
2,935 Madagascar1
2,715 Gabon1
2,040 Mali1
21,562 Portugal1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
205,048 Russia43
11,685 Singapore24
153,005 Ukraine22
4,647 Thailand21
3,830 Luxembourg20
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
11,610 Switzerland99
27,183 Spain97
9,768 Sweden94
11,356 United Arab Emirates84
4,622 Wales79
32,530 Netherlands71
16,172 Peru71
12,039 Colombia70
3,722 Qatar68
479 Malta52
Countries with hundreds of Ferry:
13,868 Brazil970
1,045 Ireland590
1,428 Scotland525
9,363 Canada428
7,351 Cameroon396
34,330 Germany303
1,105 Northern Ireland274
16,087 Mexico236
25,955 South Africa219
40,848 Italy202
3,888 New Zealand196
11,447 Malaysia152
31,070 Turkey140
14,304 Belgium126
40,399 Argentina119
5,943 Ecuador115
8,701 Chile108
Countries with thousands of Ferry:
620 France8,646
3,766 Philippines3,480
3,725 England2,033
8,284 Indonesia1,576
2,787 Australia1,110
Countries with ten thousands of Ferry:
3,440 United States11,679
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Immigrants to US

From Ireland

Mary Ferry worked as immigrant and hailed from Ireland. During the great famine, 19 years old embarked for USA from Liverpool on Ottowa and arrived on May 12, 1846. Catherine Ferry, aged 28, 21 years old Johanna Ferry, John Ferry (20) Workman, 14 years old Miles Ferry, Samuel Ferry, aged 35, M.Mrs. Ferry (30) Matron, Chas. Ferry, aged 17, 15 years old John-F. Ferry, and 50 other Ferry around 65.52% of whom were workman while others worked as farmer and clerk, servant migrated to US from Liverpool, Cork, Londonderry and Dublin.

Comments

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Normand Callaham
 Ferry is a frequent surname in the region of the east of Frederic popular form, personal name of Germanic origin composed of frid meaning peace and ric powerful.

Ferry Namesakes

    Luc Ferry, French philosopher, researcher, intellectual, essayist, publicist and politician
  • Abel Ferry, Politician
  • Abel Ferry, Film director
  • Jules Ferry, French statesman
  • Mark Ferry, Soccer player
  • William H. Ferry, Politician
  • Jules Ferry, French statesman
  • Danny Ferry, Basketball player
  • April Ferry, Costume designer
  • Lucy Ferry, Model
  • Gordon Ferry, Soccer player
  • Jackson Ferry characterized pivotal character of Young Ben in 0 drama movie Lily.
  • Jeangaël Ferry, from 2015 drama and sci-fi flick Axiome, who portrayed the Yohann Kelly.
  • In 2015, Antony Ferry characterized the role of N in horror movie Scarecrowd: The Musk.
  • In 1931, M.S. Ferry played the role of N in comedy film Indonesia Malaise.
  • Ed Ferry, from 2017 drama movie The Fourth Movement, who characterized the Zimm.

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