The FERREIRA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	22,320	1465	0.008	83
United States (1880 census)	46	51964	0	1
Change since 1880	+22274	+50499	+N/A	+82
Other Countries
Australia	588	2764	0.004	36
United Kingdom	979	5348	0.002	21

Top States for FERREIRA by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	5,616	73	0.088	885
California	3,265	964	0.010	96
Florida	2,327	830	0.015	146
New Jersey	2,293	293	0.027	273
New York	1,858	918	0.010	98
Top States for FERREIRA by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	1,386	21	0.132	1,322
Massachusetts	5,616	73	0.088	885
Hawaii	420	145	0.035	347
Connecticut	1,029	295	0.030	302
New Jersey	2,293	293	0.027	273

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called FERREIRA live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called FERREIRA represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called FERREIRA in Massachusetts than any other state, but you are more likely to find a FERREIRA by picking someone at random in Rhode Island than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of FERREIRA

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Spain

Language of origin: Spanish

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FERREIRA surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the FERREIRA surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of FERREIRA in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	344	1.54
Asian/Pacific	310	1.39
Native American/Alaskan	74	0.33
White (Caucasian)	15,128	67.78
White (Hispanic)	4,901	21.96
Mixed Race	1,562	7

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the FERREIRA surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to FERREIRA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FERREIRA.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.