The surname Freel
An English nickname surname, carried by 2,058 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex F640
Origin
English origin
Nickname, from Middle English freil (“frail, weak”).
Freel is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,058 people named Freel in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 150,022 Americans. That is up 6.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,941.
Who is named Freel
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Freel identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 95%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.2%
- Black (not Hispanic) 1.0%
- Two or more races 0.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Freel has the Soundex code F640, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F640.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Freel come from?
- Nickname, from Middle English freil (“frail, weak”).
- How common is the surname Freel?
- 2,058 people in the United States had the surname Freel in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 150,022 Americans. It ranked 14,495th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Freel?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Freel identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- What type of surname is Freel?
- Freel is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
- Is the surname Freel getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,941 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,058 in 2010, up 6.0%.