Frishman
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈfɹɪʃmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Frishman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Frischmann, Jewish Ashkenazi surname.
- USUnited States1 in 763K(measured from records)
- ILIsrael1 in 17Kas פרישמן
- MLMali≈1 in 63K
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 Frishman 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 186 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 63K (inferred from the name graph)
≈720 named פרישמן, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Mali, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled פרישמן in IL Israel, AT Austria, RO Romania and 1 more.
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)
Variant of Frischmann, Jewish Ashkenazi surname.
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Frishman 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Frishman | 1 |
| IL Israel | 513as פרישמן | 1 in 17K | 513 | פרישמן | 32 |
| US United States | 436 | 1 in 763K | 442 | Frishman | 186 |
| ML Mali | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Frishman | 1 |
| RO Romania | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 143K | — | פרישמן | 2 |
| HU Hungary | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 152K | — | פרישמן | 3 |
| AT Austria | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 160K | — | פרישמן | 5 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 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)
- Asher Frishmanb. 1933ILhistorian
- Yitzhak Frishmanb. 1938ILPh.D. Weizmann Institute of Science
- William H. Frishmanb. 1946USmember or fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine
- Judith Frishmanb. 1953USuniversity teacher at Leiden University
- Dmitrij Frishmanb. 1961researcher ORCID 0000-0001-7744-9402
- Nadav Frishmanb. 1976ILIsraeli screenwriter
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 8 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 442 | #45,573 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 441 | #51,084 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 436 | #48,436 |
| 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
- What does the name Frishman mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Frischmann, Jewish Ashkenazi surname. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Frishman?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈfɹɪʃmən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Frishman have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 720 people named פרישמן in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Frishman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 436 people named Frishman in 2010, about 1 in 763 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Frishman?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/frishmanThe 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, “Frishman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.