The FRIEDMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	36,833	857	0.014	136
United States (1880 census)	1,214	4630	0.002	24
Change since 1880	+35619	+3773	+0.012	+112
Other Countries
Australia	223	6821	0.001	14
United Kingdom	271	13636	0.001	6

Top States for FRIEDMAN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	8,750	94	0.046	461
California	4,601	591	0.014	136
Florida	4,145	360	0.026	259
New Jersey	3,062	163	0.036	364
Illinois	1,808	547	0.015	146
Top States for FRIEDMAN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	8,750	94	0.046	461
New Jersey	3,062	163	0.036	364
Florida	4,145	360	0.026	259
Maryland	1,263	362	0.024	238
Washington DC	131	383	0.023	229

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

Classification and Origin of FRIEDMAN

Language of origin: Hebrew

Religious origin: Jewish

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	464	1.26
White (Hispanic)	449	1.22
Black/African American	169	0.46
Asian/Pacific	147	0.4
Native American/Alaskan	41	0.11
White (Caucasian)	35,559	96.54

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

Similar names to FRIEDMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FRIEDMAN.

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.