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The FRY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 37,542 838 0.014 139
United States (1880 census) 19,520 272 0.039 390
Change since 1880 +18022 -566 -0.025 -251
Other Countries
Australia 3,606 411 0.022 221
United Kingdom 11,309 529 0.025 246
Top States for FRY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 4,123 247 0.034 336
Ohio 3,330 341 0.029 293
California 2,942 1098 0.009 87
Texas 2,837 907 0.014 136
Indiana 1,684 371 0.028 277
Top States for FRY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 4,123 247 0.034 336
Ohio 3,330 341 0.029 293
Iowa 824 305 0.028 282
Indiana 1,684 371 0.028 277
Idaho 350 446 0.027 270

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

Classification and Origin of FRY

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 FRY 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 FRY 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 FRY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 544 1.45
Mixed Race 537 1.43
Native American/Alaskan 338 0.9
Asian/Pacific 188 0.5
White (Caucasian) 34,764 92.6
Black/African American 1,175 3.13

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

Meaning of FRY in historical publications

(origin: Cornish British. Local) A hill, a town or house on the most prominent part of a hill or eminence. German, Frei, free, Dutch, Vry, or Fry, free.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


FRY. Old English forree ; in the H.R. Le Frj'e and Le Frie ; the same as Free and Freeman, which see. Also with regard to disposition — free, noble.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to FRY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FRY.

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 FRY

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