How common is the surname Freud?

222 people in the United States had the surname Freud in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 1,390,746 Americans. It ranked 84,463rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Freud?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Freud identified as white (not Hispanic), and 0.0% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

Who is the most famous person named Freud?

Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939), followed by Anna Freud.

Where is the surname Freud most common?

Wikidata records people named Freud in Austria, Nazi Germany and the United Kingdom and 1 other country.

How do you pronounce Freud?

Freud is /fɹɔɪd/, one syllable.

Is the surname Freud getting more or less common?

Less common. 233 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 222 in 2010, down 4.7%.

The surname Freud

A German surname, carried by 222 people in the United States.

Pronounced /fɹɔɪd/ 1 syllable Soundex F630

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Freud is more common than 47.9% of them.

Origin

German origin

A surname from German.

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 222 people named Freud in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 1,390,746 Americans. That is down 4.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 233.

#84,463

rank among US surnames

222

people in 2010

0.1

per 100,000 Americans

-4.7%

change since 2000 (was #76,700)

Who is named Freud

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

95% of people named Freud identified as white (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 95%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Hispanic, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Freuds

6 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Sigmund Freud
Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939)
Anna Freud
Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895–1982)
Esther Freud
British actress and novelist, born 1963
Ernst L. Freud
Austrian architect (1892–1970)
Tom Seidmann-Freud
Austrian author and illustrator (1892–1930)
Sophie Freud
Austrian professor (1924–2022)

Notable Freuds come mostly from Austria (3), Nazi Germany (1) and the United Kingdom (1).

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Surnames that sound like Freud

Freud has the Soundex code F630, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F630.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Freud come from?: Freud is German in origin.
How common is the surname Freud?: 222 people in the United States had the surname Freud in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 1,390,746 Americans. It ranked 84,463rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Freud?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Freud identified as white (not Hispanic), and 0.0% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
Who is the most famous person named Freud?: Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939), followed by Anna Freud.
Where is the surname Freud most common?: Wikidata records people named Freud in Austria, Nazi Germany and the United Kingdom and 1 other country.
How do you pronounce Freud?: Freud is /fɹɔɪd/, one syllable.
Is the surname Freud getting more or less common?: Less common. 233 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 222 in 2010, down 4.7%.