Ferebee
English place-name and surname
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Ferebee Origin and Meaning
The name Ferebee is a girl's name of English origin.
Obscure surname and Yorkshire and Lincolnshire place-name (where it's spelled Ferriby) makes a jaunty first. Placed in the public eye by Manhattan socialite Ferebee Bishop Taube.
The name Ferebee in Pop Culture
- The "Ferraby" spelling appears in Monsarrat's bestselling novel The Cruel Sea (1951), as the surname of Sub,Lt. Gordon Ferraby (also that of Mavis, his wife, and Ursula, their baby)