Freilich
surname · Latin script
Meaning: of course
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈfɹaɪɫɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Freilich is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ILIsrael1 in 26Kas פרייליך(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 459K
- RORomania≈1 in 66Kas פרייליך
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Freilich itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 46 (measured from records)
- 1 in 459K (inferred from the name graph)
724 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled פרייליך in IL Israel, PL Poland, RO Romania and 1 more.
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)
of course
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Freilich 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 | 724 | 1 in 459K | 724 | Freilich | 46 |
| PL Poland | 383as Frejlich | 1 in 100K | 213 | פרייליך | 2 |
| IL Israel | 333as פרייליך | 1 in 26K | 333 | פרייליך | 18 |
| RO Romania | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | פרייליך | 2 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 116K | — | פרייליך | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 45as Frejlich | 1 in 238K | 46 | — | — |
724 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Freilich is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, admittedly
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Baruch Freilichb. 1908CZHolocaust victim (born 1908)
- Semyon Freylikhb. 1920RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian film critic, screenwriter (1920–2005)
- Artur Freilichb. 1924CZHolocaust victim (born 1924)
- Gerald Freilichb. 1926USPh.D. Brown University 1949
- Alicia Freilichb. 1939VEwriter, novelist
- Michael Freilichb. 1980BEBelgian journalist
- Gabriel Freilichb. 1989GBBritish actor
- Eitan Freilichb. 1993GBEnglish singer
- Yuval Freilichb. 1995ILIsraeli fencer
- Jeff FreilichUSAmerican producer, director and screenwriter
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 724 | #31,873 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 681 | #35,561 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 675 | #32,202 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 33 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 33 | #65,742 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 20 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 20 | #89,161 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Freilich mean, and where does it come from?
- of course Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German.
- How do you pronounce Freilich?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈfɹaɪɫɪk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Freilich have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 724 people named Freilich, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled freilich.
- Where is Freilich most common?
- Freilich is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 459 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Freilich?
- In the United States, the national register counted 724 people named Freilich in 2010, about 1 in 459 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Freilich?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/freilichThe 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, “Freilich”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.