The surname Fretwell
A surname, carried by 2,106 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex F634
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,106 people named Fretwell in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 146,603 Americans. That is up 4.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,010.
#14,238
rank among US surnames
2,106
people in 2010
0.7
per 100,000 Americans
+4.8%
change since 2000 (was #13,806)
Who is named Fretwell
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
88% of people named Fretwell identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.1% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 88%
- Black (not Hispanic) 5.1%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
- Two or more races 2.4%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.3%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Fretwell has the Soundex code F634, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F634.
Questions
- How common is the surname Fretwell?
- 2,106 people in the United States had the surname Fretwell in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 146,603 Americans. It ranked 14,238th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Fretwell?
- In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Fretwell identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Fretwell getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,010 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,106 in 2010, up 4.8%.