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The ferris Surname

ferris Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish and Scottish: reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Fearghuis or Ó Fearghasa ‘descendant of Fearghus’, or from the Scottish-Gaelic form of this personal name, Fearghus (see Fergus).
  2. English: variant of Farrar.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of ferris Families in the US in 1920
Number of ferris families
 394-786
 132-393		 1-131
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Ferris inBirmingham england to PA USA kenneth ferris 26
Donald Ferris, Prince Edward Island gblanch24 0
THE FERRIS FAMILY LOCATED IN GREENWICH CONN. DEBBIE 41
Descendants of George Ferris/Ireland/England Sheryl Green (nee Ferris) 14
Henry Christoe Ferris MJWebster 2
Richard F. Ferris 1909-1950 marceltobias 0
Richard F. Ferris 1909-1950 marceltobias 0
Ferris surname in Germany? samferris11 3
FERRIS J. died WW1 in France Feb 1919 MarieLune 0
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