Ferris Family History
Ferris Name Meaning
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).English: variant of
Farrar.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Ferris Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Ferris families
 394 - 786  132 - 393 |
 1 - 131  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Ferris families
|
223 - 443 75 - 222 |
1 - 74 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Ferris families
|
105 - 207 36 - 104 |
1 - 35 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Ferris Family Origin
Ferris Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Ferris
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Ferris Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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