Ferro Family History
Ferro Name Meaning
Italian Spanish Portuguese and Maltese: from ferro ‘iron’ (from Latin ferrum) used as a nickname denoting someone who was strong or as a metonymic occupational name for someone who produced or worked iron. Italian: from a medieval personal name preserved in the modern pet form Ferruccio. English: variant of Farrar . Jewish (Sephardic): adoption of the Iberian surname (see 1 above) at the moment of conversion to Roman Catholicism. After the return to Judaism (generations later) some descendants retained the name their families used as Catholics.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022