Submitted Name Save Type Surname (from occupation) Usage Italian Edit Status Status [history·contributorshide contributors] Added 3/30/2014 by jfifles Edited 3/30/2014 by jfifles Meaning & History Occupational name for a scrap-metal merchant, from a derivative of Sferro in the sense ‘old and broken iron’. Habitational name from the district of Paternò in Catania, Sicily.