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    The surname Freilich

    A Yiddish surname, carried by 724 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex F642

    Freilich: #31,873 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Freilich #31,873, 724 people Freilich: #31,873 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Freilich #31,873, 724 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Freilich is more common than 80.4% of them.

    Origin

    Yiddish origin

    Ashkenazi surname, from Yiddish פֿריילעך (freylekh, “happy, cheerful”). Compare German freilich (“certainly, of course”).

    One of 31 Yiddish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 724 people named Freilich in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 426,444 Americans. That is up 7.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 675.

    #31,873
    rank among US surnames
    724
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +7.3%
    change since 2000 (was #32,202)

    Who is named Freilich

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

    97% of people named Freilich identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 97%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Freilich

    Freilich has the Soundex code F642, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F642.

    Other Yiddish surnames

    All 31 Yiddish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Freilich come from?
    Ashkenazi surname, from Yiddish פֿריילעך (freylekh, “happy, cheerful”). Compare German freilich (“certainly, of course”).
    How common is the surname Freilich?
    724 people in the United States had the surname Freilich in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 426,444 Americans. It ranked 31,873rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Freilich?
    In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Freilich identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Freilich getting more or less common?
    More common. 675 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 724 in 2010, up 7.3%.