The FRIEL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,555	6815	0.002	17
United States (1880 census)	1,067	5170	0.002	21
Change since 1880	+3488	-1645	0	-4
Other Countries
Australia	93	15112	0.001	6
United Kingdom	2,203	2725	0.005	48

Top States for FRIEL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	951	1544	0.008	77
New Jersey	357	2652	0.004	42
New York	337	5837	0.002	18
California	302	8877	0.001	9
Illinois	269	4889	0.002	22
Top States for FRIEL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	951	1544	0.008	77
Rhode Island	61	2683	0.006	58
Maine	68	3018	0.005	53
West Virginia	93	2480	0.005	51
New Jersey	357	2652	0.004	42

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called FRIEL live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called FRIEL represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called FRIEL in Pennsylvania than any other state, but you are more likely to find a FRIEL by picking someone at random in Pennsylvania than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of FRIEL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FRIEL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the FRIEL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of FRIEL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	65	1.43
Mixed Race	63	1.38
Asian/Pacific	40	0.88
Black/African American	19	0.42
Native American/Alaskan	13	0.29
White (Caucasian)	4,355	95.61

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the FRIEL surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to FRIEL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FRIEL.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.