How common is the surname Freyer?

1,105 people in the United States had the surname Freyer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 279,408 Americans. It ranked 23,100th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Freyer?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Freyer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Freyer?

Heinrich Freyer, Austrian paleontologist and botanist (1802-1866), followed by Timothy Edward Freyer.

Where is the surname Freyer most common?

Wikidata records people named Freyer in the Austrian Empire and the United States.

Is the surname Freyer getting more or less common?

More common. 1,095 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,105 in 2010, up 0.9%.

The surname Freyer

A surname, carried by 1,105 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). Freyer is more common than 85.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,105 people named Freyer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 279,408 Americans. That is up 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,095.

#23,100

rank among US surnames

1,105

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+0.9%

change since 2000 (was #22,053)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#23,096	Lade	1,106	279,155
#23,100	Huckabay	1,105	279,408

Who is named Freyer

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

95% of people named Freyer identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.2%
Two or more races 1.1%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%

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

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Freyers

2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Heinrich Freyer
Austrian paleontologist and botanist (1802-1866)
Timothy Edward Freyer
American prelate, born 1963

Notable Freyers come mostly from the Austrian Empire (1) and the United States (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Freyer

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

Questions

How common is the surname Freyer?: 1,105 people in the United States had the surname Freyer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 279,408 Americans. It ranked 23,100th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Freyer?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Freyer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Freyer?: Heinrich Freyer, Austrian paleontologist and botanist (1802-1866), followed by Timothy Edward Freyer.
Where is the surname Freyer most common?: Wikidata records people named Freyer in the Austrian Empire and the United States.
Is the surname Freyer getting more or less common?: More common. 1,095 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,105 in 2010, up 0.9%.