How common is the surname Freier?

1,062 people in the United States had the surname Freier in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 290,721 Americans. It ranked 23,804th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Freier?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Freier identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Freier getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,068 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,062 in 2010, down 0.6%.

The surname Freier

A German surname, carried by 1,062 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). Freier is more common than 85.3% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from German Freier.

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 1,062 people named Freier in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 290,721 Americans. That is down 0.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,068.

#23,804

rank among US surnames

1,062

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

-0.6%

change since 2000 (was #22,481)

Who is named Freier

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

96% of people named Freier identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.0% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Freier

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

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Freier come from?: Borrowed from German Freier.
How common is the surname Freier?: 1,062 people in the United States had the surname Freier in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 290,721 Americans. It ranked 23,804th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Freier?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Freier identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Freier getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,068 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,062 in 2010, down 0.6%.