Ferrier Family History
Ferrier Name Meaning
Scottish and English: occupational name for a smith one who shoed horses from Old French ferrier ‘blacksmith ironworker’ (medieval Latin ferrarius from ferrus ‘horseshoe’ from Latin ferrum ‘iron’). Compare Farrier Farrar . Scottish and English: occupational name for a ferryman from Middle English ferier(e) ‘ferryman’. Black reports that lands called Ferrylands in Dumbarton by a ferry across the Clyde belonged to Robert Ferrier in 151 French: occupational name from Old French ferrier ‘blacksmith farrier’ (see 1 above).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022