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Ferreira (surname)

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Ferreira (Latinferraria and ferrus) is aPortuguese andGalician toponymic and occupational surname, meaning "iron mine" (name of several locations in Portugal) and also the feminine variant of "blacksmith" ("ferreiro"), related to ironworks.

The variantsFerreiro,Ferreiró,Ferreiros,Ferro, orFerraria are less common. LikeSmith in English orSchmidt in German,[1]Favre in France,Kovalenko in Ukraine,Kuznetsov in Russia,Ferrari in Italy,Kowalski in Poland, this Portuguese equivalent surname is one of the most common in the country. This surname exists mainly inLusophone countries,South Africa,[2] and also, via Galician migration, inSpanish speaking countries and numerous other nations around the world.

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Ferreira is also aSephardic Jewish surname,[3] originating from the settlement of Jews in the Iberian peninsula due to theRoman exile of 70CE and eventual settlement in what is now present day Portugal and Galicia.[4] During the time of theSpanish Inquisition and eventual inquisition inPortugal, manyNew Christian families took the surname to hide their Jewish identity.[5]

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  1. ^"Was ist nach Müller und Schmidt der häufigste Familienname in Deutschland?". 28 February 2022.
  2. ^cite url=https://www.baviaans.net/articles/the_ferreira_family_in_sa
  3. ^ANU,(2024),[1], (no publisher)
  4. ^Niquet, Heike. “Jews in the Iberian Peninsula in Roman Times.”, Scripta Classica Israelica, no. 23, 1 Jan. 2004, pp. 159–182.
  5. ^Name your roots: Name analysis report. (n.d). Name your roots
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From "spark"
rel. to occ. 'smith'
1 "Kovalik" etc. may be derived from the name of the bird of genus ofnuthatches
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