Friedland
surname · Latin script
Meaning: name from any of various places bearing this name, for example in the former German territories of Prussia and Upper Silesia
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈfɹidɫənd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Friedland is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 144K(measured from records)
- ILIsrael1 in 17Kas פרידלנד
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 91K
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 Friedland 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)
- Record sources
- 313 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 91K (inferred from the name graph)
2,315 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled פרידלנד in IL Israel, LV Latvia, LT Lithuania.
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)name from any of various places bearing this name, for example in the former German territories of Prussia and Upper Silesia. Bahlow mentions a protected Jewish settle¬ ment of this name in Bohemia. As a Jewish name, it is probably in many cases simply an ornamental elaboration of Fried. Vars.: Jewish only: Friedlander, Fri(e)dlander, Fridlender.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Friedland 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 | 2,315 | 1 in 144K | 2.3K | Friedland | 313 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Friedland | 25 |
| DE Germany | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 154K | — | Friedland | 68 |
| IL Israel | 513as פרידלנד | 1 in 17K | 513 | פרידלנד | 27 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 195K | listed | Friedland | 52 |
| LV Latvia | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | פרידלנד | 3 |
| LT Lithuania | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | פרידלנד | 2 |
| EE Estonia | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 88K | listed | Friedland | 3 |
2,315 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; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register. 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)Friedland 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.
From Friedland in Silesia.
as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
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)- Valentin Friedlandb. 1490PLGerman educationist
- Nathan Friedlandb. 1808LTrabbi, speaker, and scribe. One of the introducers of zionism. (1808–1883)
- L. Fridlandb. 1888RUnot in their usual nameSoviet writer (1888-1960)
- Zvi Friedlandb. 1898ILIsraeli actor and theatre director (1898-1967)
- Boris Efimovb. 1900RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian political and propaganda artist (1900-2008)
- Georges Friedlandb. 1910FRFrench film director, screenwriter and film editor
- Dalia Friedlandb. 1935ILIsraeli actress and singer
- Robert Friedlandb. 1950USCanadian-American businessman
- Gerald Friedlandb. 1978DEGerman electrical engineer and computer scientist
- Vitali Friedlandb. 1983ILIsraeli actor
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.3K | #13,203 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.2K | #12,742 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.1K | #13,950 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Where does the name Friedland come from?
- name from any of various places bearing this name, for example in the former German territories of Prussia and Upper Silesia. Bahlow mentions a protected Jewish settle¬ ment of this name in Bohemia. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Friedland?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈfɹidɫənd/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Friedland have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Friedland, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled friedland.
- What does the name Friedland mean?
- Recorded meaning: name from any of various places bearing this name, for example in the former German territories of Prussia and Upper Silesia.
- How common is the name Friedland?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,315 people named Friedland in 2010, about 1 in 144 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/friedlandThe 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, “Friedland”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.