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

The Friant surname

In the 2000 U.S. Census, 494 people carried this name — #41,522 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 555,600 people counted.

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In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 562 people named Friant.

4 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 36 départements, most often Finistère.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they were born

Born outside France 4
Finistère 173
Moselle 92
Paris 62
Somme 54
Meurthe-et-Moselle 32
Yvelines 23
Nord 19
Pas-de-Calais 10

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 30 people named Friant 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 Hainaut.

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

Where they live today

Hainaut 13
East Flanders 9
Antwerp 8

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

In Switzerland’s population statistics

20 people named Friant live in Switzerland.

They live in 3 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.

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

Where they live today

Vaud 9
Basel-Landschaft 6
Aargau 5

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

When the index is not enough

This page says where Friant is.
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