The Friess surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,157 people carried this name — #22,281 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 256,400 people counted. That is up 7% from 1,077 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 607 people named Friess.
27 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 37 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
104 people named Friess live in Switzerland.
They live in 11 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.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Friess.
- Friederich 836 · U.S. census
- Friedman 38,374 · U.S. census
- Friedmann 1,207 · U.S. census
- Friedrich 6,249 · U.S. census
- Frier 1,427 · U.S. census
- Fries 8,540 · U.S. census
- Friez 181 · U.S. census
- Frigerio 239 · U.S. census
- Frigo 849 · U.S. census
- Friloux 325 · U.S. census
- Friot 154 · U.S. census
- Friou 123 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Friess is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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