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 (The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Friedland is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 2,315 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Friedland is also written פרידלנד in Hebrew.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 92Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 140Kfew records
- USUnited States1 in 144K
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. 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 313 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 92K (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
Friedland in other scripts: Hebrew
(measured from records)Locally spelled פרידלנד in IL Israel.
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 the surname Friedland is found
(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 | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | Friedland | 25 |
| DE Germany | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 140K | — | Friedland | 68 |
| IL Israel | 513as פרידלנד | 1 in 17K | 513 | פרידלנד | 27 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 184K | listed | Friedland | 52 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 141K | — | Friedland | 6 |
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)- Boris Efimovb. 1900RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian political and propaganda artist (1900-2008)
- Dalia Friedlandb. 1935ILIsraeli actress and singer
- Robert Friedlandb. 1950USCanadian-American businessman
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.
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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Friedland?
- 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. After it come South Africa, Germany, Israel and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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” — ranked 12742nd in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.