How common is the surname Friedman?

38,374 people in the United States had the surname Friedman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 8,046 Americans. It ranked 901st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Friedman?

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

Who is the most famous person named Friedman?

Milton Friedman, American economist and statistician (1912–2006), followed by Jerome Isaac Friedman.

Where is the surname Friedman most common?

Wikidata records people named Friedman in the United States, Canada and the Russian Empire and 2 other countries.

How do you pronounce Friedman?

Friedman is /ˈfriːdmən/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Friedman getting more or less common?

More common. 36,833 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 38,374 in 2010, up 4.2%.

The surname Friedman

A German surname, carried by 38,374 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈfriːdmən/ 2 syllables Soundex F635

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Friedman is more common than 99.4% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from German Friedmann, from German Fried (“peace”) + Mann (“man”).

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 38,374 people named Friedman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 8,046 Americans. That is up 4.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 36,833.

#901

rank among US surnames

38,374

people in 2010

per 100,000 Americans

+4.2%

change since 2000 (was #857)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#892	Duffy	38,835	7,950
#893	Vaughan	38,830	7,951
#894	Herring	38,733	7,971
#895	McKay	38,681	7,982
#896	Espinosa	38,667	7,985
#897	Rivers	38,662	7,986
#898	Farley	38,528	8,014

Who is named Friedman

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

96% of people named Friedman identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Friedmans

36 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Milton Friedman
American economist and statistician (1912–2006)
Jerome Isaac Friedman
American physicist, born 1930
Thomas Friedman
American journalist and author, born 1953
Marty Friedman
American guitarist, born 1962
David D. Friedman
American economist, physicist, legal scholar, and libertarian theorist, born 1945
George Friedman
American businessman and political scientist, born 1949
Stanton T. Friedman
American ufologist (1934–2019)
Herbert Friedman
American physicist (1916-2000)
Peter Friedman
American actor, born 1949
Maxwell Jacob Friedman
American professional wrestler, born 1996
Nat Friedman
American computer programmer, born 1977
Rose Friedman
American economist (1910–2009)

Notable Friedmans come mostly from the United States (32), Canada (1) and the Russian Empire (1).

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Variant spellings

Surnames that sound like Friedman

Friedman has the Soundex code F635, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F635.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Friedman come from?: Borrowed from German Friedmann, from German Fried (“peace”) + Mann (“man”).
How common is the surname Friedman?: 38,374 people in the United States had the surname Friedman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 8,046 Americans. It ranked 901st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Friedman?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Friedman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Friedman?: Milton Friedman, American economist and statistician (1912–2006), followed by Jerome Isaac Friedman.
Where is the surname Friedman most common?: Wikidata records people named Friedman in the United States, Canada and the Russian Empire and 2 other countries.
How do you pronounce Friedman?: Friedman is /ˈfriːdmən/, 2 syllables.
Is the surname Friedman getting more or less common?: More common. 36,833 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 38,374 in 2010, up 4.2%.
What are other spellings of Friedman?: Friedmann and Freedman.