Freedman

8,251 people in the United States were counted with the surname Freedman in the 2020 census, making it the 4,155th most common in the country. That is about one person in 36,200.

By the numbers

People: 8,251
Rank: 4,155th
How common: 1 in 36,200
Per 100,000: 2.8

Where the name comes from

. A surname taken up by freed slaves.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Freedman described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 91.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.1%
Black, not Hispanic 1.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.02%

Notable people called Freedman

Michael Freedman (born 1951)Mathematician and Fields Medalist at Microsoft Station Q
Wendy Freedman (born 1957)Canadian-American astronomer
Marcia Freedman (1938–2021)Israeli politician
Benjamin Harrison Freedman (1890–1984)American businessman
Dougie Freedman (born 1974)Scottish association football player and manager

People named Freedman with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Freedman

Try it on yourself

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.