The FREE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	9,666	3385	0.004	36
United States (1880 census)	2,459	2480	0.005	49
Change since 1880	+7207	-905	-0.001	-13
Other Countries
Australia	796	2039	0.005	49
United Kingdom	1,105	4843	0.002	24

Top States for FREE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	877	2657	0.004	42
Georgia	832	1300	0.010	102
Alabama	708	1071	0.016	159
Florida	532	3903	0.003	33
California	502	5737	0.001	15
Top States for FREE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	708	1071	0.016	159
Arkansas	329	1103	0.012	123
South Carolina	467	1445	0.012	116
Louisiana	471	1371	0.011	105
Georgia	832	1300	0.010	102

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

Classification and Origin of FREE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Status Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FREE 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 FREE 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 FREE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	731	7.56
Native American/Alaskan	146	1.51
White (Hispanic)	103	1.07
Mixed Race	101	1.04
Asian/Pacific	34	0.35
White (Caucasian)	8,551	88.46

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

Similar names to FREE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FREE.

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.