Origin and popularity of the name FERRIS
Origin
Ferris : 1: Irish and Scottish: shortened Anglicized form of Irish Ó Fearghuis or Ó Fearghasa ‘descendant of Fearghus’ or from the Scottish-Gaelic form of this personal name Fearghus (see Fergus).2: English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Ferrières-Saint-Hilaire Eure and Ferrières La Manche in Normandy France.
Source : DAFN2 : Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, ©2022 by Patrick Hanks and Oxford University Press
FANBI : The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain, ©2021, University of the West of England
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