The Fried surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 6,435 people carried this name — #5,000 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 41,800 people counted.
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In Switzerland’s population statistics
172 people named Fried live in Switzerland.
They live in 8 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Graubünden.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
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.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 171 people named Fried.
34 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 23 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
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 88 people named Fried 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 Antwerp.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Fried.
- Frias 12,357 · U.S. census
- Frick 9,562 · U.S. census
- Fricker 1,221 · U.S. census
- Fridel 105 · U.S. census
- Fridman 1,276 · U.S. census
- Fridrich 337 · U.S. census
- Friedel 2,264 · U.S. census
- Friederich 748 · U.S. census
- Friedman 36,833 · U.S. census
- Friedmann 1,123 · U.S. census
- Friedrich 6,076 · U.S. census
- Frier 1,380 · U.S. census
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