Fry

Fry is the 931st most common surname in the United States, shared by 36,696 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 8,145.

By the numbers

People: 36,696
Rank: 931st
How common: 1 in 8,145
Per 100,000: 12.3

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 88.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Black, not Hispanic 2.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Fry

Stephen Fry (born 1957)British comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
Roger Fry (1866–1934)English artist and art critic
Elizabeth Fry (1780–1845)social reformer from England
Lucy Fry (born 1992)Australian actress
Shirley Fry (1927–2021)American tennis and badminton player
Christopher Fry (1907–2005)English poet and playwright
Hannah Fry (born 1984)British mathematician and TV presenter
Varian Fry (1907–1967)American journalist

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

Surnames like Fry

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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.