Freiberg is used as a family name or surname in Germany. It is 8 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Freiberg
No. of characters: 8
Origin: Germany
Meaning: Focused in Moselle, as its Freiberger derivative, means one who is a native of Freiberg, name of several German cities. The place name is formed frei (= free) and berg (= mountain, hill).

How popular is Freiberg?

Freiberg is common in Germany.

Freiberg is ranked 67217 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Freiberg bearers increased by 8.113208 per cent in 2010 US census to 1719 since 2000, the surname slipped by 53 spots and ranked at 16662. The last name was found in around 6 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 93.08 95.53
Hispanic or Latino 4.01 2.33
Others 1.11 0.94
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 1.05 0.57
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.41 0
Black 0.35 0
Freiberg is quite popular family name mostly used in United States while Estonia is ahead in terms of density. Around 6743 people have been found who wears Freiberg as their family name. Freiberg is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
32,086 Mexico3
24,269 Peru2
14,004 Hungary2
124,220 Italy2
91,024 Belgium1
9,926 Ivory Coast1
77,122 Sweden1
199,150 Kazakhstan1
7,292 Vietnam1
47,891 Norway1
58,885 Poland1
492,292 Ukraine1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
23,537 Switzerland45
377,825 Russia17
14,048 Ireland16
20,800 Serbia15
78,557 Netherlands13
29,517 New Zealand12
94,038 Spain11
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
36,621 Canada89
133,875 France61
5,963 Latvia58
64,420 England54
Countries with hundreds of Freiberg:
9,058 Argentina597
34,683 Brazil334
8,789 Australia321
3,557 Israel318
1,203 Estonia169
10,776 Czech Republic165
3,700 Denmark162
12,545 Austria105
Countries with thousands of Freiberg:
15,200 United States2,214
4,654 Germany1,950
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Freiberg Namesakes

  • Miroslav Šalom Freiberger, Rabbi
  • Arie Freiberg, Academic
  • Dov Freiberg, Writer
  • Edan Freiberger, Film Score Composer
  • Franny Freiberger, Film producer
  • Miroslav Šalom Freiberger, Rabbi
  • Fred Freiberger, Film writer
  • Dov Freiberg, Writer
  • Theodoric of Freiberg, Physicist
  • Theodoric of Freiberg, Physicist

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