2716: Ferrari May 29, 2024

The name Ferrari connotes luxury and status named after the founder of the Ferrari brand, Enzo Ferrari. The brand and this surname may be eternally linked in the English speaking world, but the surname Ferrari is actually the 3rd most common in Italy, where the brand is from, and this amount increases when including Ferraro. The level of commonality is shared with the related Smith, insofar as Ferrari comes from ‘ferraio’ (smith), from the Italian ‘ferro’ meaning ‘iron’. It is from this Latin root, too, that the symbol for iron on the periodic table is Fe.