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The FREITAS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 10,250 3203 0.004 38
United States (1880 census) 92 33271 0 2
Change since 1880 +10158 +30068 +N/A +36
Other Countries
Australia 123 11851 0.001 8
United Kingdom 379 10851 0.001 8
Top States for FREITAS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 3,808 869 0.011 112
Massachusetts 1,994 407 0.031 314
Florida 600 3588 0.004 38
Hawaii 583 93 0.048 481
New York 343 5944 0.002 18
Top States for FREITAS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Hawaii 583 93 0.048 481
Massachusetts 1,994 407 0.031 314
Rhode Island 267 509 0.025 255
California 3,808 869 0.011 112
New Hampshire 126 1644 0.010 102

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of FREITAS

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Portugal

Language of origin: Portuguese

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 697 6.8
Asian/Pacific 379 3.7
Black/African American 68 0.66
Native American/Alaskan 13 0.13
White (Caucasian) 8,013 78.18
Mixed Race 1,080 10.54

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

Meaning of FREITAS in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of FREITAS.

Similar names to FREITAS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FREITAS.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for FREITAS

The following words are slight variants of FREITAS that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.