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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • German : Courageous traveler

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : nickname for someone with gray hair or for a person who dressed in gray, from an Italianized form of Old French ferrand ‘iron gray’.
  • Italian : from a Late Latin personal name Ferrandus, which was either a variant of Ferdinand or a byname meaning ‘gray’.

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