Family name origins & meanings
- Italian (northwest and Liguria) : variant of Ferrara.
- Italian : habitational name from various places named with this word: Ferrera Cenisio (now Moncenisio) in Piemonte; and Ferrera di Varese and Ferrera Erbognone, both in Lombardy.
- Spanish and Catalan : topographic name for someone who lived near a forge or ironworks, from Latin ferraria.