Frye

35,502 people in the United States were counted with the surname Frye in the 2020 census, making it the 969th most common in the country. That is about one person in 8,419.

By the numbers

People: 35,502
Rank: 969th
How common: 1 in 8,419
Per 100,000: 11.9

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 80.2%
Black, not Hispanic 11.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 2.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Frye

Northrop Frye (1912–1991)Canadian literary critic and literary theorist
Richard N. Frye (1920–2014)American historian
Channing Frye (born 1983)American basketball player
Dwight Frye (1899–1943)actor
Soleil Moon Frye (born 1976)American actress, director, screenwriter
Don Frye (born 1965)American mixed martial artist
Wayne Frye (1930–2014)American rower
Marilyn Frye (born 1941)feminist philosopher and professor

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

Surnames like Frye

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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.