The Fry surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 38,029 people carried this name — #909 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 7,760 people counted. That is up 1% from 37,542 in 2000.
In Ireland’s birth registers, 1890
Ireland registered 9 births for the Fry name in 1890.
Most were registered in Leinster. By the Registrar-General’s own method — births multiplied by 44.38 — that is about 400 people bearing the name in Ireland at the time. The Registrar-General’s note on the name: “Dublin.”
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born, 1890
Registrar-General for Ireland, «Special Report on Surnames in Ireland» (R. E. Matheson, 1894), births index of 1890 — public domain.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
208 people named Fry live in Switzerland.
They live in 14 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/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 56 people named Fry.
12 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 13 départements, most often Paris.
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 the Nordic population registers
22 people named Fry 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).
Who carried it
People named Fry,
with a public archive behind them.
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Frank Fry d. 1952 · motorcycle racer
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Mary Fry d. 1808
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Mary Phibbs d. 1860
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Catherine Fry d. 1840
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Elizabeth Fry d. 1732
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Ronald Fry d. 1971
Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Fry.
- Frossard 262 · U.S. census
- Frost 42,015 · U.S. census
- Fruh 153 · U.S. census
- Fruit 725 · U.S. census
- Frumin 103 · U.S. census
- Frutos 1,390 · U.S. census
- Frydman 310 · U.S. census
- Fuchs 12,958 · U.S. census
- Fuente 629 · U.S. census
- Fuentes 81,006 · U.S. census
- Fuertes 994 · U.S. census
- Fuger 168 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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