Frieß
surname · Latin script
/fʁiːs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Frieß is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 43K(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 154K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 90Kas Friess
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. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 126 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 43K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Friess in US United States, AT Austria, 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
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 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 43K | listed | Frieß | 100 |
| US United States | 1,157as Friess | 1 in 288K | 1.2K | Friess | 126 |
| BR Brazil | 176as Friess | 1 in 1.2M | 176 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 93as Friess | 1 in 90K | 93 | Friess | 17 |
| AT Austria | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 154K | — | Friess | 29 |
| CZ Czechia | 53as Friess | 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Karl Frießb. 1845DEGerman politician, lawyer and notary (1845-1931)
- Rudolf Frießb. 1881DEGerman author (1881–1965)
- Johann Frießb. 1900DEGerman teacher and mathematician
- Erhard Frießb. 1936DEGerman director of church music
- Sieglinde Frießb. 1959DEGerman politician
- Justine FrießDEGerman 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)
Attested in 7 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 9 | #65,843 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 2 | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Frieß?
- A machine transcription gives /fʁiːs/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Frieß have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Frieß in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled frieß.
- 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.
What do you want to know about Frieß?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/frie%C3%9FThe 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 2026-10-10.