Ferron Family History

French and English (partly of Huguenot origin): occupational name for a blacksmith or worker in iron from Old French and Middle English ferron ‘ironmonger blacksmith’ (from Latin ferro genitive ferronis a derivative of ferrum ‘iron’).

Italian (northern): variant of Ferrone.

Irish: from Mac Mhearáin see McFerran. The name may have been confused with Farren.

Anglicized forms of this name can be indistinguishable from those of Ó Fearáin see Fearon.

Possibly also a shortened form of northern Irish McFerron.