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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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ferris Family Facts

Distribution of ferris Families in the US in 1920
Number of ferris families
 394-786
 132-393		 1-131
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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