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ferry Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fearadhaigh ‘descendant of Fearadhach’, a personal name of uncertain origin, probably an adjective derivative of fear ‘man’.
  2. English: metonymic occupational name for a ferryman, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a ferry crossing on a river. Middle English feri ‘ferry’ is from Old Norse ferja ‘ferry’, ultimately cognate with the Old English verb ferian ‘to carry’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of ferry Families in the US in 1920
Number of ferry families
 181-359
 61-180
 1-60
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