Fries

7,818 people in the United States were counted with the surname Fries in the 2020 census, making it the 4,395th most common in the country. That is about one person in 38,200.

By the numbers

People: 7,818
Rank: 4,395th
How common: 1 in 38,200
Per 100,000: 2.6

Where the name comes from

The town was named after a prominent cotton-mill owner, Francis Henry Fries. The surname is converged from both Friesland and French friche (“fallow land”), found in Swiss French.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Black, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Fries

Elias Magnus Fries (1794–1878)Swedish biologist considered to be one of the founding fathers of the modern taxonomy of mushrooms
Liv Lisa Fries (born 1990)German actress
Jakob Friedrich Fries (1773–1843)German philosopher & scholar
Klas Robert Elias Fries (1876–1966)Swedish biologist
Theodor Magnus Fries (1832–1913)Swedish lichenologist and biologist
Walter Fries (1894–1982)German general
Ellen Fries (1855–1900)Swedish historian and writer

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

Surnames like Fries

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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.