Free
Free is the 3,622nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 9,563 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 31,300.
By the numbers
- People
- 9,563
- Rank
- 3,622nd
- How common
- 1 in 31,300
- Per 100,000
- 3.2
Where the name comes from
English surname, from Old English freo (“freeborn”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Free described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Free
- Nell Tiger Free (born 1999)English actress
- Helen Murray Free (1923–2021)American chemist and educator
- Duncan Free (born 1973)Australian rower
- World B. Free (born 1953)American basketball player
- Ana Free (born 1987)British-Portuguese singer
People named Free with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Free
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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.