The Friedmann surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,207 people carried this name — #21,609 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 243,900 people counted. That is up 7% from 1,123 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Friedmann surname
Fried + Mann
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Friedmann» (German), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 512 people named Friedmann.
74 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 31 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
142 people named Friedmann live in Switzerland.
They live in 12 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
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 Argentina’s national register
At least 59 people named Friedmann live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in City of Buenos Aires.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In the Nordic population registers
37 people named Friedmann is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Friedmann.
- Fridman 1,177 · U.S. census
- Fridrich 359 · U.S. census
- Fried 7,010 · U.S. census
- Friedel 2,456 · U.S. census
- Friederich 836 · U.S. census
- Friedman 38,374 · U.S. census
- Friedrich 6,249 · U.S. census
- Frier 1,427 · U.S. census
- Fries 8,540 · U.S. census
- Friess 1,157 · U.S. census
- Friez 181 · U.S. census
- Frigerio 239 · U.S. census
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