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    The surname Froese

    A German surname, carried by 1,082 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex F620

    Froese: #23,485 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Froese #23,485, 1,082 people Froese: #23,485 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Froese #23,485, 1,082 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Froese is more common than 85.5% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Borrowed from German Fröse.

    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 1,082 people named Froese in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 285,347 Americans. That is up 31% since 2000, when the Census counted 828.

    #23,485
    rank among US surnames
    1,082
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +30.7%
    change since 2000 (was #27,413)

    Who is named Froese

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

    92% of people named Froese identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.5%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Froese

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

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Froese come from?
    Borrowed from German Fröse.
    How common is the surname Froese?
    1,082 people in the United States had the surname Froese in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 285,347 Americans. It ranked 23,485th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Froese?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Froese identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Froese getting more or less common?
    More common. 828 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,082 in 2010, up 31%.