How common is the surname Frayer?

1,013 people in the United States had the surname Frayer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 304,783 Americans. It ranked 24,648th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Frayer getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,034 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,013 in 2010, down 2.0%.

The surname Frayer

A surname, carried by 1,013 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex F660

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Frayer is more common than 84.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,013 people named Frayer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 304,783 Americans. That is down 2.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,034.

#24,648

rank among US surnames

1,013

people in 2010

0.3

per 100,000 Americans

-2%

change since 2000 (was #23,072)

Who is named Frayer

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

80% of people named Frayer identified as white (not Hispanic), 14% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 80%
Black (not Hispanic) 14%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.5%
Two or more races 1.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Frayer

Frayer has the Soundex code F660, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F660.

Questions

How common is the surname Frayer?: 1,013 people in the United States had the surname Frayer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 304,783 Americans. It ranked 24,648th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Frayer?: In the 2010 Census, 80% of people named Frayer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 14% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Frayer getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,034 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,013 in 2010, down 2.0%.