The ferreira Surname
ferreira Name Meaning and History
Galician and Portuguese: common topographic name for someone who
lived by a forge or iron workings, from Latin ferraria ‘forge’,
‘iron working’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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