Friedman

Friedman is the 898th most common surname in the United States, shared by 38,252 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 7,814.

By the numbers

People: 38,252
Rank: 898th
How common: 1 in 7,814
Per 100,000: 12.8

Where the name comes from

Origin German

from German Fried (“peace”) + Mann (“man”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 94.0%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Friedman

Milton Friedman (1912–2006)American economist and statistician
Jerome Isaac Friedman (born 1930)American physicist
Thomas Friedman (born 1953)American journalist and author
Marty Friedman (born 1962)American guitarist
David D. Friedman (born 1945)American economist, physicist, legal scholar, and libertarian theorist
George Friedman (born 1949)American businessman and political scientist
Stanton T. Friedman (1934–2019)American ufologist
Herbert Friedman (1916–2000)American physicist

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

Surnames like Friedman

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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.