Friess
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Schreibvarianten mit -ss/-ß im Auslaut nach Vokal; Karte zeigt Dentale: Affrikaten und Frikative
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Friess is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 90K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 202K
- USUnited States1 in 288K
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 Friess 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 126 (measured from records)
- 1 in 90K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 named Frieß, est.
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 Frieß in DE Germany.
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)Schreibvarianten mit -ss/-ß im Auslaut nach Vokal; Karte zeigt Dentale: Affrikaten und Frikative. 299/1021 Träger.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Friess 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 35K | listed | Frieß | 100 |
| US United States | 1,157 | 1 in 288K | 1.2K | Friess | 126 |
| BR Brazil | 176 | 1 in 1.2M | 176 | — | — |
| AT Austria | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Friess | 29 |
| CH Switzerland | 93 | 1 in 90K | 93 | Friess | 17 |
| CZ Czechia | 53 | 1 in 202K | 53 | — | — |
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: the dfa-band-2 register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)Friess 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 Luxembourgish, second-person singular imperative of friessen
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)- Horace L. Friessb. 1900USAmerican philosopher (1900-1975)
- Heinrich Friessb. 1901DEGerman Esperantist
- Émile Friessb. 1902FRFrench association football player (1901–1993)
- Rosa Friessb. 1916DEGerman painter
- Foster Friessb. 1940USAmerican businessman (1940–2021)
- Helmut Friessb. 1962DEGerman surgeon
- Adele Friessb. 1969CAbadminton player
- Thomas Friessb. 1985ATAustrian association football player
- Aline Friessb. 2003FRFrench artistic gymnast
- Sophie FriessATAustrian association football player
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #22,503 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #22,281 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #22,322 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 176 | #40,796 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 93 | #11,723 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 53 | #27,982 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 51 | #10,554 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 2 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Friess mean?
- Recorded meaning: Schreibvarianten mit -ss/-ß im Auslaut nach Vokal; Karte zeigt Dentale: Affrikaten und Frikative.
- In which country does Friess have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Frieß in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Friess most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Friess is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 90 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Friess?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,157 people named Friess in 2010, about 1 in 288 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/friessThe 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, “Friess”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.