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The FREY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 32,735 972 0.012 121
United States (1880 census) 6,746 894 0.013 135
Change since 1880 +25989 -78 -0.001 -14
Other Countries
Australia 258 5978 0.002 16
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for FREY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 5,006 185 0.041 408
Ohio 2,492 462 0.022 219
California 2,275 1388 0.007 67
New York 1,940 852 0.010 102
Illinois 1,749 641 0.014 141
Top States for FREY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 5,006 185 0.041 408
North Dakota 167 367 0.026 260
Wisconsin 1,312 345 0.024 245
Montana 205 419 0.023 227
Ohio 2,492 462 0.022 219

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

Classification and Origin of FREY

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FREY 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.

Ethnic distribution of FREY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 393 1.2
Mixed Race 318 0.97
Black/African American 285 0.87
Asian/Pacific 141 0.43
Native American/Alaskan 95 0.29
White (Caucasian) 31,504 96.24

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

Meaning of FREY in historical publications

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

Similar names to FREY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FREY.

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 FREY

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