How common is the surname Freedman?

8,913 people in the United States had the surname Freedman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 34,640 Americans. It ranked 3,985th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Freedman?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Freedman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Freedman?

Michael Freedman, American mathematician, followed by Benjamin Harrison Freedman.

Where is the surname Freedman most common?

Wikidata records people named Freedman in the United States.

Is the surname Freedman getting more or less common?

Less common. 8,926 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,913 in 2010, down 0.1%.

The surname Freedman

A German surname, carried by 8,913 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex F635

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Freedman is more common than 97.5% of them.

Origin

German origin

* Anglicization of German Friedmann * Corruption of Friedman * freed + man. A surname taken up by freed slaves.

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 8,913 people named Freedman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 34,640 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 8,926.

#3,985

rank among US surnames

8,913

people in 2010

3.0

per 100,000 Americans

-0.1%

change since 2000 (was #3,658)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#3,976	Teal	8,937	34,547
#3,977	Hamblin	8,936	34,551
#3,978	Greiner	8,935	34,555
#3,979	To	8,934	34,558
#3,981	Yun	8,933	34,562
#3,982	Aiello	8,927	34,586
#3,983	Baptiste	8,915	34,632

Who is named Freedman

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

95% of people named Freedman identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.2%
Two or more races 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Freedmans

5 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Michael Freedman
American mathematician, born 1951
Benjamin Harrison Freedman
American businessman (1890-1984)
Daniel Z. Freedman
American physicist, born 1939
Stuart J. Freedman
American physicist (1944-2012)
David Noel Freedman
American biblical scholar, author, editor, archaeologist (1922-2008)

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Freedman

Freedman has the Soundex code F635, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F635.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Freedman come from?: * Anglicization of German Friedmann * Corruption of Friedman * freed + man. A surname taken up by freed slaves.
How common is the surname Freedman?: 8,913 people in the United States had the surname Freedman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 34,640 Americans. It ranked 3,985th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Freedman?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Freedman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Freedman?: Michael Freedman, American mathematician, followed by Benjamin Harrison Freedman.
Where is the surname Freedman most common?: Wikidata records people named Freedman in the United States.
Is the surname Freedman getting more or less common?: Less common. 8,926 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,913 in 2010, down 0.1%.