Frish
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/fɹɪʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Frish is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 20Kas Frisch(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 43Kas Frisch
- UYUruguay1 in 49Kas Frisch
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Frish 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
- 61 (measured from records)
- 1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
5,033 named Frisch, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark, as Frisch
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Frisch in US United States.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Frish 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 | 5,033as Frisch | 1 in 66K | 5K | Frisch | 9 |
| DK Denmark | 296as Frisch | 1 in 20K | 296 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 127as Frisch | 1 in 92K | 127 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 126as Frisch | 1 in 43K | 126 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 123as Frisch | 1 in 68K | 123 | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | 69as Frisch | 1 in 49K | 69 | — | — |
5,033 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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
- David Frishb. 1935ILbasketball 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 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 192 | #89,549 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 167 | #111,996 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 144 | #120,187 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Frish?
- A machine transcription gives /fɹɪʃ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Frish have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.0 thousand people named Frisch, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Frish most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Frish itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Denmark's: the national register counts about 1 in 20 thousand people named Frisch.
- How common is the name Frish?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,033 people named Frisch in 2010, about 1 in 66 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Frish?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/frishThe 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, “Frish”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.