Freeman

162,107 people in the United States were counted with the surname Freeman in the 2020 census, making it the 159th most common in the country. That is about one person in 1,844.

By the numbers

People: 162,107
Rank: 159th
How common: 1 in 1,844
Per 100,000: 54.2

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 Freeman described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 62.6%
Black, not Hispanic 27.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Freeman

Morgan Freeman (born 1937)American actor and producer
Martin Freeman (born 1971)English actor
Cathy Freeman (born 1973)Australian short-distance runner
Alex Freeman (born 2004)American soccer player
Paul Freeman (born 1943)English actor
Cassidy Freeman (born 1982)American actress and singer
Theodore Freeman (1930–1964)American astronaut
Kathleen Freeman (1919–2001)American actress

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

Surnames like Freeman

Also a first name

Freeman has been given to 10,996 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1918. See it as a given name.

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.