Friedrich
5,909 people in the United States were counted with the surname Friedrich in the 2020 census, making it the 5,658th most common in the country. That is about one person in 50,600.
By the numbers
- People
- 5,909
- Rank
- 5,658th
- How common
- 1 in 50,600
- Per 100,000
- 2.0
Where the name comes from
Origin German
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Friedrich described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Friedrich
- Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840)German Romantic landscape painter
- Arne Friedrich (born 1979)German association football player
- Manuel Friedrich (born 1979)German footballer
- Prince Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia (born 1976)Head of the Imperial and Royal House of Hohenzollern
- Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen (1856–1936)Austrian archduke
- Carl Friedrich I, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1783–1853)Monarch of the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
- István Friedrich (1883–1951)Prime Minister of Hungary, factory owner, politician
- Paul Friedrich I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1800–1842)grand duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
People named Friedrich with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Friedrich
Also a first name
Friedrich has been given to 652 American babies as a first name since 1914, peaking in 2025. 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.