The ferrier Surname
ferrier Name Meaning and History
- Scottish: occupational name for a smith, one who shoed horses, Middle English and Old French ferrier, from medieval Latin ferrarius, from ferrus ‘horseshoe’, from Latin ferrum ‘iron’. Compare Farrar.
- Scottish: possibly an occupational name for a ferryman. Black reports that lands called Ferrylands in Dumbarton, by a ferry across the Clyde, belonged to Robert Ferrier in 1512.
- Possibly southern French: occupational name for a smith, a variant of Ferrié (see Ferrie).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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