Fréy
surname · Latin script
Fréy is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Given name, Under Rhine district, and Freytag as Friday exists only in the North of Baden 1809.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 10K
- NONorway1 in 19K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 265 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
32,904 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Frey in US United States, FR France, CH Switzerland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Given name, Under Rhine district, and Freytag as Friday exists only in the North of Baden 1809.
Cited for this meaning 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
- Nordic Names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Fréy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 32,904 | 1 in 10K | 33K | Frey | 187 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 8,244 | 1 in 1K | 8.2K | Frey | 71 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,885 | 1 in 112K | 1.9K | — | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,150 | 1 in 40K | 1.1K | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | — | 490 | 1 in 78K | 278 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 286 | 1 in 19K | 286 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | — | 200 | 1 in 28K | 200 | — | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 124 | 1 in 27K | 124 | — | — |
| FR France | #947 | — | — | 606 | Frey | 265 |
32,904 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fréy mean, and where does it come from?
- Given name, Under Rhine district, and Freytag as Friday exists only in the North of Baden 1809. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History and 1 other source.
- In which country does Fréy have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 33 thousand people named Fréy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled frey.
- Where is Fréy most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Fréy is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 1.0 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Fréy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 32,904 people named Fréy in 2010, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
- How common is Fréy compared with other names?
- In France, Fréy is the 947th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fr%C3%A9yThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Fréy” — the 947th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.