Freitas

11,166 people in the United States were counted with the surname Freitas in the 2020 census, making it the 3,147th most common in the country. That is about one person in 26,800.

By the numbers

People: 11,166
Rank: 3,147th
How common: 1 in 26,800
Per 100,000: 3.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Portuguese

Borrowed from Portuguese Freitas.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 76.0%
Hispanic or Latino 9.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 7.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 4.6%
Black, not Hispanic 2.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Freitas

Diogo de Freitas do Amaral (1941–2019)Portuguese politician
Marcos Freitas (born 1988)Portuguese table tennis player
Luís de Freitas Branco (1890–1955)Portuguese composer, musicologist, and professor of music
Marlon Freitas (born 1995)Brazilian footballer

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

Surnames like Freitas

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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.