Fretz surname: U.S. census count, rank and records | FamilyCrests

The Fretz surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,474 people carried this name — #18,660 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 200,000 people counted. That is down 9% from 1,622 in 2000.

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In Switzerland’s population statistics

495 people named Fretz live in Switzerland.

They live in 17 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Aargau.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they live today

Aargau 134
Zurich 113
St. Gallen 57
Bern 56
Basel-Stadt 21
Zug 17
Vaud 16
Solothurn 16

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 79 people named Fretz.

5 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 11 départements, most often Haut-Rhin.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they were born

Born outside France 5
Haut-Rhin 45
Ardennes 6
Vosges 6
Marne 6
Paris 5
Rhône 1
Bas-Rhin 1
Haute-Vienne 1

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Belgium’s population register

At least 34 people named Fretz live in Belgium.

Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Luxembourg Province.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Luxembourg Province 34

Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.

Who carried it

People named Fretz,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Diederich Thomas Fretz 1743–1815 · merchant
  • Clayton Detweiler Fretz 1844–1926 · physician
  • Hans Fretz 1868–1941
  • Lewis Barnett Fretz 1869– · writer
  • Robert Fretz 1901–1979
  • J. M. Fretz 1912–1999 · head coach

Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

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