Friend

At the 2020 census, 17,697 Americans bore the surname Friend — 1,991st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 16,900.

By the numbers

People: 17,697
Rank: 1,991st
How common: 1 in 16,900
Per 100,000: 5.9

Where the name comes from

Origin a common noun

English surname, from the noun friend, or adaptations of it in other languages such as German Freund, Dutch Vriend, Slovene Prijatelj.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 81.6%
Black, not Hispanic 7.9%
Hispanic or Latino 4.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Friend

Rupert Friend (born 1981)British actor
Rob Friend (born 1981)Canadian footballer
George Friend (born 1987)English association football player
Richard Friend (born 1953)British physicist

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

Surnames like Friend

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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.