How common is the surname Frisch?

5,033 people in the United States had the surname Frisch in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 61,344 Americans. It ranked 6,710th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Frisch?

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

Who is the most famous person named Frisch?

Otto Robert Frisch, Austrian-born British nuclear physicist, followed by Frankie Frisch.

Where is the surname Frisch most common?

Wikidata records people named Frisch in the United Kingdom, the United States and Austria.

How do you pronounce Frisch?

Frisch is /fɹɪʃ/, one syllable.

Is the surname Frisch getting more or less common?

More common. 4,709 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,033 in 2010, up 6.9%.

The surname Frisch

A surname, carried by 5,033 people in the United States.

Pronounced /fɹɪʃ/ 1 syllable Soundex F620

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Frisch is more common than 95.9% of them.

Origin

* As a German and North Germanic surname, from a pet form of Friedrich. Compare Fritz. * Also as a German and Jewish surname, from the adjective frisch.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 5,033 people named Frisch in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 61,344 Americans. That is up 6.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,709.

#6,710

rank among US surnames

5,033

people in 2010

1.7

per 100,000 Americans

+6.9%

change since 2000 (was #6,627)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,704	Dyke	5,037	61,296
#6,708	Ussery	5,036	61,308
#6,709	Daggett	5,035	61,320
#6,710	Frisch	5,033	61,344
#6,711	Boyette	5,032	61,356
#6,713	Forde	5,031	61,369

Who is named Frisch

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

96% of people named Frisch 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 0.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Frischs

3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Otto Robert Frisch
Austrian-born British nuclear physicist, 1904–1979
Frankie Frisch
American baseball player and manager (1898–1973)
Arno Frisch
Austrian actor, born 1975

Notable Frischs come mostly from the United Kingdom (1), the United States (1) and Austria (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Frisch

Frisch has the Soundex code F620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F620.

Questions

Where does the surname Frisch come from?: * As a German and North Germanic surname, from a pet form of Friedrich. Compare Fritz. * Also as a German and Jewish surname, from the adjective frisch.
How common is the surname Frisch?: 5,033 people in the United States had the surname Frisch in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 61,344 Americans. It ranked 6,710th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Frisch?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Frisch identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Frisch?: Otto Robert Frisch, Austrian-born British nuclear physicist, followed by Frankie Frisch.
Where is the surname Frisch most common?: Wikidata records people named Frisch in the United Kingdom, the United States and Austria.
How do you pronounce Frisch?: Frisch is /fɹɪʃ/, one syllable.
Is the surname Frisch getting more or less common?: More common. 4,709 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,033 in 2010, up 6.9%.