Given name & surname
Ferrari
Ferrari is a surname from Italian. It is used in English and Italian.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1984. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ferrari through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 68
- 23 boys · 45 girls
- Most popular year
- 1991
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,632 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,632 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 1991. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 151 as a first name in 2020; 7,969 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ferrari’s family of names
In Greek usage, Ferrari as a surname is a transliteration of Φερράρι. In Italian usage, Ferrari as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Феррари.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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